How Chicago embedded equity and worker protection into the city’s cultural policy framework
PROJECT: A campaign to recognise creative workers’ rights and improve standards to protect freelance and creative labour
Chicago’s Creative Worker Rights: “Art is Labor” campaign redefines how cities value artistic.
How the Chicago Monuments Project is reimagining public memory through equity and art
PROJECT: Commissioning new inclusive and diverse public monuments to support civic healing
The Other Washingtons public art project by Amanda Williams in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood; October 2025.
The Chicago Monuments.
Healing Arts Chicago: Embedding creativity in community health
Through cross-sector partnership between city culture, health and labour departments, Healing Arts Chicago has trained local artists as certified Community Health Workers through training at City Colleges of Chicago.
P.A.R.T.Y in Chicago: engaging communities through art for urban transformation
Chicago identified priority investment corridors in each neighborhood for streetscape and public realm enhancements, including new roadways, sidewalks, light poles, bike lanes, landscaping and community plazas.
Art avenues to a more equitable Chicago: ‘We Will Chicago’ unveiled
A ten year framework to enhance citywide equity and resiliency, the "We Will Chicago" plan includes approximately 40 goals and 150 objectives to improve Chicagoans' lives, especially individuals impacted.
Artists and activists: the beating heart of Chicago’s ‘Together We Heal’ initiative
In fall of 2020, the Office of Equity and Racial Justice (OERJ) launched Together We Heal, a journey toward
building racial healing and transformation through policy and culture change.
Who tells the story? Chicago changes the landscape of memory
Chicago recognized the need for a larger reckoning with monuments that symbolize outdated values and
that do not tell the story, or the full story, of the city's history.
TRENDS
Divided Communities
Chicago’s communities remain largely divided along racial and socioeconomic lines. The city consistently ranks among the top five most segregated cities in America.
Access to Opportunity
In recent years, dramatic.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Bally's Chicago is an upcoming casino resort that will be built in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The complex will be in the city's River West neighbourhood.
Chicago
Situated on the shores of Lake Michigan in Illinois, Chicago is among the largest cities in the U.S, famed for its bold architecture, passion for sports and richly diverse.