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1104 S Wabash Ave #200
Chicago, IL 60605
(312) 369-6630

Mission: The Art Institute of Chicago collects, preserves, and interprets works of art of the highest quality, representing the world's diverse artistic traditions, for the inspiration and education of the public and in accordance with our profession's highest ethical standards and practices.

Museum Campus is a 57acre park in Chicago that sits alongside Lake Michigan and encompasses five of the city's most notable attractions: the Adler Planetarium, America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium; the Field Museum of Natural History; Soldier Field, home of the NFL Chicago Bears football team; and the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place. Museum Campus sits adjacent to Northerly Island along the waterfront.HistoryThe Museum Campus was created to transform the vicinity of three of the city's most notable museums – the Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Field Museum of Natural History – along with Soldier Field stadium, into a scenic pedestrian-friendly area. The area is landscaped with greenery and flora as well as jogging paths and walkways. A picturesque promenade along Solidarity Drive, an isthmus, links Northerly Island to the mainland. The drive itself is lined with a number of grand bronze monuments commemorating Kościuszko, Havliček, and Nicholas Copernicus, the last of which is a replica of a famous 19th-century work in Warsaw by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.

The Museum of Contemporary Photography was founded in 1984 by Columbia College Chicago. It is well known for an active program and curating which discovers many emerging and mid-career artists. The museum houses a permanent collection as well as the Midwest Photographers Project, which contains portfolios of photographers and artists' work who reside in the midwestern United States.Permanent collectionThe MoCP’s permanent collection focuses on American and International photography of the 20th century and today. The collection features work by Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Aaron Siskind, and Victor Skrebneski among the 10,000-plus photographs and photographically related objects, including gelatin-silver prints, color work, digital pieces, photograms, and various alternative processes.Selected exhibitionsOf the Museum's exhibitions since 2001, notable ones have included:Paul Shambroom: Evidence of Democracy, October 3 - December 5, 2003Michael Wolf: The Transparent City and Work/Place, November 14, 2008 - January 31, 2009Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba, January 10 - March 6, 2011

Founded in 1976 as the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, the museum collaborates with artists, photographers, communities, and institutions locally, nationally, and internationally. As the leading photography museum in the Midwest, presenting projects and exhibitions and acquiring works that embrace a wide range of contemporary aesthetics and technologies, the museum offers students, educators, research specialists, and general audiences an intimate and comprehensive visual study center. The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) is a stimulating and innovative forum for the collection, creation, and examination of contemporary imagemaking in its camera tradition and in its expanded vocabulary of digital processes. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the museum considers all elements of our mission to promote a greater understanding and appreciation of the artistic, cultural and political implication of the image in our world today, within the context of public service and responsibility to the community and museum profession. The Museum is committed to broadening the visual arts by constantly searching for new national and international talent to exhibit rather than simply following suit established by larger institutions. To this end, the museum’s programming guides the public to a greater understanding of thought-provoking contemporary photography as well as an appreciation for traditional work that has not yet received critical acclaim. Admission is always free for visitors.

The National Veterans Art Museum, formerly the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, located at 4041 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago's six corners neighborhood, is dedicated to displaying and studying art produced by veterans from the Vietnam War and other wars and conflicts. Originally a traveling exhibition, while in Chicago it was viewed by Mayor Richard M. Daley, who was so taken by the power of the art that he immediately insisted that the city provide a permanent home for it. The entrance hall had 58,226 dog tags hanging from the ceiling, representing the US soldiers who died in Vietnam. It and the other exhibits have been described as deeply moving.HistoryThe National Veterans Art Museum is the result of efforts of the Vietnam Veterans Art Group, formed in 1981. The group built a following almost immediately after their first show, Vietnam: Reflexes and Reflections, which opened in October 1981. With increasing popularity and press, the Group grew; veterans from all over the United States began to send in work to be displayed. In 1996 the Vietnam Veterans Art Group established a museum, the only one of its kind at 1801 S. Indiana Ave in Chicago's South Loop.MissionThe museum's mission is to inspire greater understanding of the impact of war through the collection, preservation, and exhibition of art created by veterans of all U.S. military conflicts. The museum displays military and artistic heritage, helping civilians and veterans make connections across diverse ranges of experience. With nearly 2,500 works of art by more than 250 artists, the museum offers visitors of all ages and backgrounds insight into war from the viewpoint of people who were physically and emotionally involved in military conflicts. In addition, the museum provides an artistic outlet for veterans to work through and express their combat and military service experiences.

Curious about ways to integrate art across school curricula? Interested in teacher professional development opportunities? Want to know what benefits are available to Illinois educators? Come visit us at the Crown Educator Resource Center! Our Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 1:00-5:00 Thursday 1:00-7:00 Saturday 10:30-4:30 Closed on Monday, Friday and Sunday- please call to make an appointment to visit during off hours The Crown Family Educator Resource Center, located in the Ryan Education Center, is a destination for teachers, librarians, parents, and educators of all kinds. Supporting arts integration across school curricula and interactive museum learning, the Crown Resource Center is a reference library with art history and art-making resources, exhibition catalogues, gallery activities, interdisciplinary lesson plans, research files, teacher manuals, and videos/DVDs; many relate directly to the Art Institute's collection and a selection of items in the library is available for loan. Patrons may use the library and computer stations to conduct research or consult with museum staff to plan lessons. Find us also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AICForTeachers

Chicago Book Expo 2016 Sunday, November 13, 2016 noon to 5pm Columbia College Chicago, 1104 S. Wabash Chicago, Illinois 60605 Chicago independent publishers will be selling their books, Chicago writers will be talking about their work, and Chicago nonprofits serving writers and publishers will be exhibiting. And it's all free and open to the public! Vendor fees are $50 for a full (6-foot) table and $25 for a half-table; to vend, you must be a local author, publisher, or literary nonprofit. To be put on our list to be notified when author registration is open or for any questions about vending, please contact us at [email protected].

Welcome to the Chicago Community Darkroom! We are a community-focused darkroom open to people of all skill levels with unlimited, 24-hour access for members. We provide the chemicals and equipment for developing and printing black-and-white film and prints. RATES Memberships: $75 for 30-Day Membership.

HH4H goes into hospitals all over the country, write on our wall if you want us at a hospital near you!

Vision On State is a residential condominium building located in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago.

Meet at The Scout every Tues. night (rain or shine), check-in to keep track of attendance, run at your own pace, then meet back at the pub for free post-run snacks and great drink specials all night. Get fit, make new friends, and raise money for local charities!

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CFS provides opportunities for youth to gain greater civic passion, commitment, confidence and tools for a life of social activism. Our vision is in the spirit of the original freedom schools in Mississippi in the 1960s; CFS will become a place where young people from communities across Chicago can discover their own power to make change – not only for themselves, but also for their communities and the world. We are not a traditional school, but a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting youth activists and training adults who work with them. Concisely, CFS does the following: 1) We provide paid fellowships directly to aspiring youth activists ages 14 - 17 who spend a year with us taking classes and developing action plans 2) We train adults who work in the field of youth leadership development and youth organizing 3) We provide educational opportunities to the general public (workshops, film screenings) which examine the history of social movements and current issues in a historical context. As far as we know, there is no other organization in the country doing the work that we do in the way that we do it.

Reverse The Curse, Inc. is not affiliated with any professional baseball team.

PianoForte provides performance opportunities and much-needed exposure to exceptional pianists emerging on the national and international scene, and continues to feature some of Chicago’s favorite and best-known artists in an intimate setting. We facilitate interaction between artists and audience during performances, ensuring that audience members have personal, engaging learning experiences and leave with a heightened appreciation for piano music. We seek high caliber professionals who perform repertoire from Baroque to Contemporary and Jazz and exhibit great variety in our programming. The Foundation broadcasts lunch hour concerts the first Friday of every month on 98.7 WFMT, Chicago's Fine Arts Station, and occasional special broadcasts on 90.9 WDCB, Chicago's only jazz station.

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Cru at Columbia exists to be a place on campus where students can grow in their faith, ask questions about Christianity, and have life-changing community. Our weekly meeting, Thursday Night Live, is held each week at 7:30pm in Hokin Lecture Hall (623 S. Wabash). Our small group bible studies are held throughout the week, and more information on times and location will be updated soon.

Benefiting the Greater South Loop Association, this lively, colorful festival mirrors the South Loops’ vibrancy, offering something for everyone. BOW features a kid’s area, vendors, fresh roasted corn and sangria. To top it off, revelers will enjoy high quality live tunes!

For the last 22 years, the ABC7 Gibbons 5K Run and 3K Walk has proven itself as a landmark event in the Chicagoland area and is a major fundraiser for the Leukemia Research Foundation. Each year on the third Thursday evening in June, more than 2,000 people gather along Chicago’s downtown lakefront to run, walk and raise funds in search of a cure for all blood cancers.

ShopColumbia at Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery serves the Columbia College Chicago community by fostering the representation and sale of professional work and talent from multiple creative fields. As an extension of the classroom, the Shop supports students by providing a professional environment to hone the process of presenting, marketing, and selling work to the public. Through community partnerships, ancillary programming and representation of alumni, faculty and staff, ShopColumbia bridges professional practice with the student learning experience. Since its inception in October 2008, ShopColumbia artists have earned over $300,000 from the sale of their work.

Why education matters: Education is one of the most powerful instruments for reducing poverty and inequality and lays a foundation for sustained economic growth in developing countries. Link Community Development works at all levels of the education system--with governments, schools, communities, and parents--to unlock local solutions to improve the quality of education in rural districts of Ghana, Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, and Uganda. We provide training, tools and support to district officials and schools to understand how schools are performing, how to measure performance, and how to plan for improvement. Join us: Invest in education. Contact us at [email protected] to get involved! Visit www.lcdinternational.org to learn more!