Chicago Children’s Choir is a nonprofit organization that inspires and unites youth from diverse backgrounds to become global citizens through music. Founded in Hyde Park in direct response to the Civil Rights Movement in 1956, CCC has grown from one choir into a vast network of in-school and after-school programs. Today, CCC serves nearly 5,000 […]
The People’s Music School — the first and only tuition-free music school of its kind in the country — is proud to host its second annual Big Night, “You Belong Here,” on Friday, March 15 at Morgan Manufacturing in the Fulton Market district. The event will help raise critical funding for the school’s programs, which […]
Chicago enjoys world-class arts organizations. But surprisingly, until recently, it offered almost no arts education for its public school students. The arts were cut from the Chicago Public Schools three decades ago. Unlike most other cities, Chicago didn’t even offer a public school for the arts for youth with strong artistic inclinations. Please see our […]
