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Chiraq

Bouquet of thoughts for Spike Lee's Chiraq

What US Can learn about Political Discourse

What the USA Can Learn about Political Discourse from MLB and the NFL (and Bill Veeck, George Halas and Research at Facebook) Nearly 100...

Planning Page

User-friendly serviceable Youth Resource directory for all 77 Chicago neighborhoods. Of enormous value to Chicagoans in its own right,...

La Shawn K. Ford

Steve Sewall is invited by 8th District State Representative La Shawn K. Ford as hisMedia and Community Advisor

Telling the Full Story

For presentation at the next meeting of the Illinois Violence Prevention Task Force (VPTF): "Full Story" proposal for the creation of a...

Chicago Flashback

3800 word article "Chicago Flashback: How Daniel Burnham, redivivus, inspired the Chicago Tribune's New Plan of Chicago." 12 page print...

America's Choice blog post

Calls for an a new, citizen-participatory approach to Chicago's gang/drug problem fueled by a Daniel Burnham-scale transformation of...

Parents Political University

The Flyer below is for the half-day conference of the Parents Political University in Austin

CCM is active with The Austin Voice

Illinois State Representative La Shawn K Ford, and other Austin leaders in creating and building the Parents Political University (PPU)...

Ongoing Commentary

Running commentary on the state of Chicago media and Chicago civic discourse is at Chicago Civic Media.com. Recent emphasis is on the...

Billy Goat Tavern

CCM creates Table #16 at Billy Goat's tavern in the Look as part of the Chicago Community Trust's "On The Table" event inviting 10,000...

The State of Civic Discourse