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Details[edit] Gallery 37 was created in 1991 by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs' Lois Weisberg and Maggie Daley, wife of the city's former mayor, Richard M. Daley. Its purpose is to attract artistically inclined city youth to work as apprentice artists at a vacant downtown lot known as Block 37, bound by State, Dearborn, Washington ...
Gads Hill Center is a non-profit youth education and family resource center on Chicago's South Side, United States, established in 1898.With its headquarters in Chicago, Gads Hill Center serves families in the Chicago neighborhoods of Lower West Side (Pilsen), North Lawndale and South Lawndale (Little Village) with programming that provides learning support and educational enrichment, early ...
Young Chicago Authors is a non-profit organization that promotes young writers and performers in the greater Chicagoland area. They are known for their Rooted & Radical (R&R) youth poetry festival which was previously called Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB). Famous past participants include Chance the Rapper, Nate Marshall, Kevin Coval, Eve Ewing ...
Chicago, IL. Region served. U.S.A. Budget. US$ 33 Million (2008) [1] Website. Metropolitan Family Services. Metropolitan Family Services (MFS) is a non-profit organization in Chicago. Through seven major community centers and public policy advocacy, Metropolitan serves low-income and working poor families.
Founded. 1993. (1993) Location. Chicago, Illinois. Midwest Young Artists Conservatory (MYAC) is a youth music and jazz organization based near Chicago, Illinois. It is the largest youth ensemble music program in the Midwest. [citation needed] MYAC was founded in 1993 in Evanston, Illinois, by Dr. Allan Dennis and consisted of a single orchestra.
The Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan Scout Reservation is located in northern Wisconsin and serves the Scouts of the Northeast Illinois Council based in Vernon Hills, Illinois. Originally a logging camp, the scouts purchased the land and first had campers in 1929. The 1,560 acres (6 km 2) camp serves over 2,300 scouts each summer.
BYP100. Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) is an African American youth organization in the United States. [1] Its activities include community organizing, voter mobilization, and other social justice campaigns focused on black, feminist, and queer issues. [2] The national director is D'Atra "Dee Dee" Jackson. [3]
North Lawndale, Chicago. (2020) [ 1 ] North Lawndale is one of the 77 community areas of the city of Chicago, Illinois, located on its West Side. The area contains the K-Town Historic District, the Foundation for Homan Square, the Homan Square interrogation facility, and the greatest concentration of greystones in the city.