Paul Durica is the Director of Exhibitions at the Chicago History Museum and previously at the Newberry Library. He leads a series of Chicago history walks, talks, and reenactments that have been featured in local and national media collectively called Pocket Guide to Hell. His writing on Chicago has appeared in Poetry and the Journal of American Studies, among other places, and, with Bill Savage, he is the editor of Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America (Northwestern UP, 2013), a guide to the city from 1893. He has a PhD in English from the University of Chicago.