Public Education+Organizing

After two years of hosting organizations and efforts aimed at making Chicago a better and more just city the CivicLab must close its doors on June 30, 2015.We invite you comment on our...

OK – 80 donors contributed to our first crowdfunding campaign and we produced and uploaded the first of five TIF training videos, “TIF 101“! Now help us produce the second video, “The TIF...

It was TIF town meeting #32 on Wednesday night, February 11, 2015 at the Way of Truth M.B. Church on 6458 S. California Avenue as we lit up the six TIFs of the...

We lit up the 11 TIFs of the 25th Ward at the Rudy Lozano Library on January 29, 2015 for the Pilsen Alliance. It was yet another spirited night of civic learning, civic...

We are super proud of producing our first online TIF training video, “TIF 101”! You can watch the 20 minute video right here: Thanks to the 80 people who contributed to this project....

Thanks to the 80 donors who gave to our crowdfunding campaign! “TIF 101” is in post-production and we can’t wait to release it online. Here’s a tasty preview. Tweet

Join us on December 4 when we Illuminate the 11th Ward!  We’ll be at The First Trinity Lutheran Church, Community Room, 643 W. 31st Street from. 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Details here. Contribute to...

Tom has an article in Art Against the Law from the School of the Art Institute (edited by Rebecca Zorach), “The TIF Illumination Project and Civic Imagination.” Check it out at http://tinyurl.com/ArtxLaw. Tweet

It was a star-studded 25th TIF town meeting on November 7, 2014 at VenueOne when we Illuminated the 12 TIFs of the 27th Ward. Here is part of the presentation. The full version,...

Do you want EVERYONE to get Illuminated? If you do, will you please make an investment in our first crowdfunding campaign? We are seeking to raise $15,000 to produce five twenty minute videos...