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Kids Off the Block (KOB) was a memorial of stones of young people killed by gun violence. The memorial was located in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood, with the mission "to provide at-risk low income youth positive alternatives to gangs, drugs, truancy, violence and the juvenile justice system." [1] [2]
[4] [5] In 2000, After School Matters was formed and began offering Chicago teenagers a wider range of programs, including programs from Gallery 37. [6] When the youth organization first launched as Gallery 37, 260 kids were enrolled that summer. [7] Over 200,000 teenagers have been associated with or members of After School Matters since its ...
Chicago Art Book Fair, November [1] Chicago Artists Month, September/October [2] Gold Coast Art Fair, Grant Park, June [3] Manifest, Columbia College Chicago, May; SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, October/November [4] Wells Street Art Festival, Old Town, June [5]
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Rock For Kids supplies year-round music education classes to Chicago Public School students living and attending school in under resourced neighborhoods by contracting professional music teachers, purchasing instruments and sheet music and providing a comprehensive 32-week music education curriculum with measurable goals in the areas of: music theory and history, vocal technique, music ...
The Town Hall in Austin Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaking at St. Hyacinth Basilica in Avondale The Back of the Yards neighborhood derived from the Union Stockyards, at one time a significant employer in Chicago. Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle revolves around the life of a Lithuanian immigrant working the Stockyards named Jurgis Rudkus.
After hundreds of teenagers and young adults descended on the Loop in downtown Chicago over the weekend, destroying cars and brawling in the streets, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson cautioned against ...