Chicago Loop Alliance Joins in Celebrating 2019 as the Year Of Chicago Theatre
The City of Chicago has designated 2019 the Year of Chicago Theatre, and just like the Year of Creative Youth (2018) and Year of Public Art (2017), Chicago Loop Alliance…
Grant Park Music Festival 2019 Season Announced
For its 85th season, the Grant Park Music Festival will bring classical music superstars and some of the canon’s most beloved repertoire to the Loop. Highlights include pianists Inon Barnatan,…
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Short-Cuts: A New Pop-Up Art Experience to Activate Chicago’s Pedway
Chicago Loop Alliance will introduce Short-Cuts as its new placemaking initiative this season.
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Chicago Loop Alliance’s Placemaking Initiatives Revered at IDA Conference
Chicago Loop Alliance’s placemaking efforts recognized as an “immersive urban experience and a best practice of how to create mini destinations.”
Embarc Brings Experiential Learning to the Chicago Loop
Embarc challenges students to exercise "collaboration, trust and persistence."
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Art on theMART to Light Up Chicago
The Chicago Loop is home to some of the most famous large-scale art pieces in the world. In just a few days, Art on theMART, a curated series of digital…
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Introducing Free Write Sound & Vision: Bringing sound with a mission to ACTIVATE
All season long, thousands of workers, residents, and visitors in the Loop have enjoyed live music and DJs at Chicago Loop Alliance’s ACTIVATE series. What those ACTIVATE attendees may not…
ACTIVATE Celebrates Chicago’s House Music Legacy
As a placemaking pop-up art program, ACTIVATE encourages people to see the Loop anew. And it didn’t fail to deliver at A.K.A. Power House as it transformed Garland Court into…
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Introducing Party Noire: Producing ‘ACTIVATE: A.K.A. Power House’
Party Noire, an inclusive cultural hub celebrating Black femmes, queer women of color and Black womynhood along the gender spectrum, is joining Canvas Chicago in co-producing "ACTIVATE: A.K.A. Power House”…
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‘The Shape of Chicago: John Massey’s 1968 Banners Revisited’
Fifty years ago, downtown Chicago was brightened by a campaign of striking, graphic banners by celebrated Chicago designer John Massey. On Aug. 1, State Street between Ida B. Wells Drive…
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