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This video is presented in collaboration with Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy through more than 30 exhibitions, as well as hundreds of talks, tours and special events in 2018.

This video is presented in collaboration with Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy through more than 30 exhibitions, as well as hundreds of talks, tours and special events in 2018.

Community groups in the greater Chinatown area announced a series of candidate forums Jan. 18 and encouraged community members to vote in the 2019 municipal election. Along with 13 other community groups, the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, revealed their strategy for cultivating an informed and engaged electorate for the 2019 election.

Earlier this fall, teenage photography students at Marwen, an after-school arts center on the Near North Side, took a field trip to the DePaul Art Museum to see their Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago exhibit. The exhibit, which features the mid-20th century works of the Japanese-American photographer, was an opportunity for the students to see up close the work of a renowned artist whose goal was similar to their own: to capture the essence of Chicago through black-and-white photography.

CPS plan to close top performing, majority black school is halted by courts, and later dropped altogether

Advocates and community members from southwest Chicago gathered at the City Hall Nov. 14 to urge officials to support a $25 million budget amendment for long-term mental health services and push for the reopening of several public mental health clinics that were closed in 2012.