The Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) was created in 1987 through funding provided by the Illinois Arts Council Access Program. The goals of CAAP are to discover, nurture and expand Chicago’s multi-ethnic artists and nonprofit arts organizations, and to foster new and emerging individual artists and arts groups by providing grants for professional, artistic...
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Chicagoist has slides, and we thought it was a timely idea.
More about “Chicago January 7th 2010,” posted with vodpod.
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Volunteers are needed on Thursdays from 3:45-5:00 p.m. at Perspectives Charter School, 8131 S. May St., Chicago. These mentoring sessions include a coordinator from the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, so you can learn how to mentor better if you are interested, but don’t know where or how to start. There are opportunities to...
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This is not your father or your mother’s opera. Get out of your comfort zone and give this form of multimedia entertainment a try: Chicago Opera Vanguard reimagines Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential play “No Exit” as an opera.
For this modern morality play, director George Cederquist has gathered an impressive ensemble of singing actors, musicians and visual...
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Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee today chose Rio as the host city, marking the first time a South American city has been chosen, as Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama spoke on behalf of Chicago during...
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Gmail went out around 3 p.m. CST on September 1, 2009. I was in the middle of sending an email, so I turned to Twitter to see if it was me or my computer, or was it affecting other people, too. I had been using Wordle, too, so I set up a Twitterfall search...
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Be good to Mother Nature without leaving city limits. Friends of the Parks (FOTP) is asking for volunteers to Spicebush Woods on Saturday, August 1 at 9 a.m. to help with the second cleanup of the summer. Rebecca Blazer, Director, Forest Preserve Initiative, at FOTP said the aim of the clean up is to...
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Thirty thousand people are expected to walk, bike, roll, dance and play along eight miles of Chicago streets this Saturday for Open Streets. The streets will be closed to car traffic between 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Participants will be able to enjoy all kinds of activities along the way including yoga, basketball, dancing,...
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UPDATE added on July 30, 2009: Via e-mail from Rebecca Blazer, Director, Forest Preserve Initiative, Friends of the Parks Tel 312-857-2757 x17.
“In the City Council meeting yesterday, the Air Pollution Control Ordinance with Ald. Doherty’s amendments restricting burning WAS DEFERRED!
I believe it takes two alderman for an ordinance to be deferred, but...
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July 10, 2009 – When two men were released from prison on July 7, 21 years after they were falsely convicted in a quintuple murder, several questions were raised:
Why did it take Attorney General Lisa Madigan six years to free them?
How long will it take, and how many procedural battles must be fought, for...
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