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The Evanston Arts Council announced Friday that 23 local arts nonprofits would be awarded funding secured from the National Endowment for the Arts. EAC was one of three Illinois organizations to receive an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the NEA. This grant program, which will award a total of $135,000, is the largest one...
While some of Chicago’s museums have free admission days throughout the summer, many zoos, parks and museums across the city offer free admission for kids,...
The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian is hosting a film screening of “Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World” and a virtual panel discussion with its filmmakers, Costa Boutsikaris and Michael Kotutwa Johnson on Sunday. The film follows five Native American tribes as they restore ancient relationships with the Earth through traditional land management...
Student activist Emmet Ebels-Duggan said they wanted students to leave Evanston Township High School’s inaugural Climate Justice Conference feeling energized, educated and hopeful. “Information is just so key to everything political, to every movement,” Ebels-Duggan said. “We want to talk about climate justice specifically, and how climate crisis intersects with other forms of injustice.” Ebels-Duggan,...
Chicago is home to world class zoos, parks and museums — and you can bring your kids to many of them, for free. Here’s where.