Gapers Block has ceased publication.
Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
✶ Thank you for your readership and contributions. ✶
TODAY
Friday, April 19
Merge
In 1914, the Silver Spray wrecked on Morgan Shoal, a rocky reef near the 49th Street Beach. The remains are one of the easiest of Lake Michigan's shipwrecks to explore, but now the wreck and Morgan Shoal are in danger of being covered over by a shoreline restoration project.
Elsewhere on Gapers Block Right Now:
Drive ThruFriday Foodpic: Roasted Corn
by Robyn Nisi
A/CBest Feature Films & Documentaries of 2015
by Steve Prokopy
A/CBye Bye, Gapers Block from the A/C Team
by Nancy Bishop
MechanicsWhere are the Peace Candidates?
by Jeff Smith
Drive ThruThe State of Food Writing
by Brandy Gonsoulin
TransmissionOur Final Transmission Days
by Sarah Brooks
Book ClubFillet of Solo Takes Rogers Park in January
by Emma Terhaar
MechanicsOn Gapers Block and Chicago
by Phil Huckelberry
A/CAt the MCA: Pop Art Design Gives Us a Refresher Course on the '60s and '70s
by Nancy Bishop
A/CThe Hateful Eight, Concussion, Joy, Carol, Hitchcock/Truffaut & Man Up
by Steve Prokopy
