Chance the Rapper’s youth empowerment charity organization, SocialWorks, hosts their annual A Night at the Museum event tonight at the Museum of Science and Industry (5700 S. DuSable Lake Shore Dr.). It’s a family-focused evening that benefits unhoused people and organizations that serve them; guests are invited to support the effort by bringing new and/or […]
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Download My State of Mind: The Guide Book (PDF) by SocialWorks
This 20-page section was a special pullout supplement in the October 15, 2020 Chicago Reader.
This content would not be possible without the support of the Chicago Reader partners: Habilitative Systems, Sinai Chicago, Joliet Job Corps and Paul Simon Job Corps, Adler University, Chicago Behavioral Hospital, Thresholds, and Kadima Mental Health Services.
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Open the Circle teaches footwork because footwork saves lives
Chicago nonprofit Open the Circle works to spread a local Black dance culture that can knit together youth communities.
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The best overlooked Chicago hip-hop of 2018
Chicago’s hip-hop scene overflows with such variety and abundance that it’s impossible to show enough love to every great release—but that’s no reason not to try.
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Jessica Marks sings a ghostly song in a haunted house
Jessica Marks sings a ghostly song in a haunted house, the Palmer Squares play a benefit for Chance’s Arts & Literature Fund, and more.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel feeling good about Chicago Public Schools as the 2017-’18 school year begins, and other news
Also, the Obama Foundation wants to change the nation’s stereotypes about the south side.
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Grand jury still weighing more indictments in the Laquan McDonald case, and other Chicago news
Also, the Field Museum is giving Sue her own private suite.
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Jamila Woods includes Chicago schoolkids, joyful blackness, and a backyard barbecue in her video for ‘LSD’
For her new video, soul singer Jamila Woods collaborated with Chance the Rapper, VAM studios, and a group of CPS students—one of whom created the treatment for the clip.
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Rahm has been making a comeback as a ‘national political operator’ since Trump’s election, and other Chicago news
Also, local immigration officials are now detaining deportees in Kankakee County instead of suburban Broadview.
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Chance the Rapper led a crowd of thousands from his Grant Park party to the polls
Monday’s Parade to the Polls outgrew its planned location before it even began, and Chance the Rapper ended up leading a crowd of thousands from Grant Park to an early-voting site.
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Updated: Chance the Rapper’s new nonprofit hosts a ‘Parade to the Polls’ on Monday
Chance the Rapper’s SocialWorks collaborates with Chicago Votes and Prime Fortune on a free concert at the Virgin Hotel and a march to the Chicago Board of Elections.