Michael Gorham, industry professor of finance and director of the Center for Financial Markets at IIT Stuart School of Business, will participate in a dynamic historical reenactment on a key event in the history of futures trading on Sunday, October 20, 2013, at 3 pm in the outdoor space directly east of the Chicago Board of Trade.

The event titled “The Pit,” draws from the 1903 novel The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris, which is a fictional narrative of the attempted manipulation of the wheat market at the Chicago Board of Trade in the 1890s. Read more.