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Rooted & Radical Youth Poetry Festival (formerly named Louder Than a Bomb) is an annual youth poetry slam in Chicago every spring. Founded in 2001 by Kevin Coval and Anna West of the nonprofit organization Young Chicago Authors. [1] It is now the largest youth slam in the world with over 1,000 teams competing in 2014. [2]
In 1960, Chicago formed its first Sister Cities agreement with Warsaw, Poland, and launched the Chicago Sister Cities International Program. [33] In the 1970s and 1980s, the program added seven additional Sister Cities, and in 1990, Mayor Richard M. Daley officially established a volunteer board of directors for the organization. [ 34 ]
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The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 South State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it has free Wi-Fi ...
Launched in 2015, Bronzeville-based City Bureau started as a nonprofit journalism lab, with programs that included reporting fellowships and Chicago Documenters, where community members are ...
The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.It consists of 81 locations, including a central library, three regional libraries, and branches distributed throughout the city's 77 Community Areas. [5]
1871 is a nonprofit digital startup incubator in the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois. [1] It was founded in 2012 by J. B. Pritzker and is the flagship project of The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC), a nonprofit organization that helps entrepreneurs build high-growth, sustainable businesses that serve as platforms for economic development and civic leadership.
Slush was founded in 2008 by Helene Auramo, Ville Vesterinen, Kai Lemmetty, Peter Vesterbacka and Timo Airisto. [5] The event has grown from a small event with a few hundred visitors [5] to an internationally known event attracting more than 10000 visitors from around the world.