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Liz Phair performs on the first day of Riot Fest at Douglas Park in Chicago in 2018. 
Chicago Ideas Week this October will once again feature a diverse range of speakers, melding business leaders, artists, journalists and athletes in on-stage conversations about what it deems pressing ideas.
Among those who will appear on CIW stages Oct. 12 to 17, the organization’s ninth annual festival, are poet and sociologist Eve Ewing and singer-songwriter Liz Phair.
Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power, former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart and a panel of YouTube influencers are also on the extensive list of those who’ll be talking at the MCA and Harris Theater.
Tickets for Chicago Ideas members are available now. The public can buy tickets for the events beginning Sept. 10 at chicagoideas.com.
