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title: Chicago
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# Chicago

Posts in this archive: 10

- [How Chicago embedded equity and worker protection into the city’s cultural policy framework ](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/chicago-art-is-labor-campaign.md)
- [How the Chicago Monuments Project is reimagining public memory through equity and art ](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/the-chicago-monuments-project.md)
- [Healing Arts Chicago: Embedding creativity in community health ](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/healing-arts-chicago.md) — 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 and through apprenticeships.
- [P.A.R.T.Y in Chicago: engaging communities through art for urban transformation](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/chicago-p-a-r-t-y-public-art-reimaging-tour-with-youchicago.md) — 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](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/we-will-chicago-citywide-planning-process.md) — 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 by inequities in health, economic stability, neighborhood livability, and other systemic issues
- [Artists and activists: the beating heart of Chicago's 'Together We Heal' initiative](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/together-we-heal-creative-place-program.md) — 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](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city-project/chicago-chicago-monuments-project.md) — 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](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/trends.md)
- [INFRASTRUCTURE](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/infrastructure.md)
- [Chicago](https://worldcitiescultureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/city/chicago.md) — 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 neighbourhoods