Deep Dive Chicago

Pullman: the first industrial planned community and a national landmark

Pullman: the first industrial planned community and a national landmark

Upswell Chicago begins in less than two weeks now! We hope you’ve had a chance to save your spot to experience some of the immersive community events happening during the main event this November! The lineup features 19 thoughtfully designed experiences in all – including seven notable former Chicagoan also designated it as a National…

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1600 900 Jacqueline Brennan
Pilsen: a Chicagoland stronghold for Mexican art and culture

Pilsen: a Chicagoland stronghold for Mexican art and culture

Upswell Chicago begins in less than three weeks now! We hope you’ve had a chance to save your spot to experience some of the immersive community events happening during the main event this November! The lineup features 18 thoughtfully designed experiences in all – including seven

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1600 900 Jacqueline Brennan
Marwen: empowering youth through visual arts

Marwen: empowering youth through visual arts

Sign up for the Marwen was founded in 1987. What began as a one-room art studio is now a multi-floor, eight-studio, multi-gallery industrial loft that serves more than 900 students a year, offering visual arts and college and career programming for Chicago’s young people from under-resourced communities and schools in middle through high school. Aurora King,…

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1600 900 Jacqueline Brennan
Recognizing Chicago’s original stewards during Upswell’s opening

Recognizing Chicago’s original stewards during Upswell’s opening

Chicago, home to Heather Miller (Wyandotte Nation), executive director of the “Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgement?” (American Indians in Children's Literature)

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1600 900 Jacqueline Brennan
Loop: innovation runs deep in the oldest part of town

Loop: innovation runs deep in the oldest part of town

Upswell Chicago is now less than a month away! We hope you’ve had a chance to save your spot to experience some of the immersive community events happening during the main event this November! The lineup features 18 thoughtfully designed experiences in all – including seven

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1600 900 Jacqueline Brennan
Little Village / Brighton Park: sustaining the “Mexico of the Midwest”

Little Village / Brighton Park: sustaining the “Mexico of the Midwest”

With Upswell Chicago now just five weeks away, we hope you’ve had a chance to save your spot to experience some of the immersive community events happening during the main event this November! The lineup includes 18 thoughtfully designed experiences in all – including seven community dinners and eleven Chicago Inside & Out tours guided…

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1600 900 Jacqueline Brennan
Moving from discussion to deliverable

Moving from discussion to deliverable

After months of meetings, thousands of Post-It notes, and countless emails, you might think the Upswell Accelerator would be feeling a little … spent. Instead, as members gather for the next-to-last time on a late summer afternoon, there’s a surprising energy in the room. The agenda includes report-outs from five community focus groups (read our…

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Greater Grand Crossing: frog war turf to a hybrid cultural economy

Greater Grand Crossing: frog war turf to a hybrid cultural economy

We hope you’ve had a chance to check out the

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1600 900 Jacqueline Brennan
Marz Community Brewing Co.: brewing up a community of the future

Marz Community Brewing Co.: brewing up a community of the future

According to Marz Community Brewing Co. has his hand in a lot of projects, and to name them all would take its own feature…” Marz Community Brewing Co., an Upswell Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar (named for his mom) and

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1600 900 Jacqueline Brennan
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