Unity Fund: A Look at Impact in 2025
The Chicago Community Trust’s Unity Fund is a testament to the power of collective giving. Since its founding in 2008 at the height…
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Financial Health in Cook County: Why it Matters and How Policy Impacts Financial Well-Being
In 2025, The Chicago Community Trust, with support from JPMorganChase, commissioned the Financial Health Network to update the findings of its Financial Health…
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Responding to Chicago’s Urgent Needs in 2025
As the region’s community foundation, The Chicago Community Trust exists to respond to the needs of our region and the people who call…
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In Memoriam: Charles Benton
Charles Benton was passionate about civic engagement and democracy. And he had the pioneering vision to recognize how essential access to media and telecommunication are…
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In Memoriam: Dr. Henry Betts
In 1964, when the then ten-year-old Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago launched a fundraising campaign to build a gleaming new facility at 345 E. Superior St.,…
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In Memoriam: Don Perkins
When tapped to become executive vice president of Jewel Companies in 1960 and then president in 1965, Donald Perkins immediately saw the promotion as an…
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The Transformative Power of Shared Experiences
Realizing the vision that we have for our community requires many hands and many voices. Informing ourselves about the way other people experience the world…
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Learning from Chicago, to Design the City of the Future
On Wednesday, July 17, Generation All hosted a group of the students of Common Purpose from the University of Exeter in Devon, England for lunch.…
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How the Fierce, High-Flying Rivalries of Lucha Libre Unite a Neighborhood
Residents from across Logan Square and beyond streamed steadily into Unity Park, a one-acre green space and play lot in the heart of the neighborhood,…
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Our Great Rivers: Chicago’s Next Frontier
On August 17, at the Studio Gang-designed WMS Boathouse in Clark Park, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, The Chicago Community Trust’s president and CEO Terry Mazany…
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Building Empathy from Behind the Camera
“I do want to make films that entertain people—but I also want people to be in the know.” In the last video of this partnership…
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National Funders Boost Culture-Led Neighborhood Development in Chicago
Artists remind us what is most significant about being human: creativity. Creative minds have the power to re-envision our world, imagining equitable futures full of…
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In West Pullman, Art Provides Kids a Voice Against Violence
On the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, the children of West Pullman gathered to stop the violence. In the parking lot of St. Titus…
