The Gospel and Our Cities: Chicago 2018 will bring together thought leaders and practitioners in key topics around urban ministry: church planting, church renewal, faith & work, and restoring Chicago. If you have a heart for Kingdom work happening in our cities today, you won’t want to miss this event. If you’re still seeking to understand the unique facets of urban ministry, this is the event for you.

Chicago Ideas is a movement built on one core belief: When a broad spectrum of thinkers and instigators share ideas, we have the power to transform our world.

The 2018 Keyman Conference will examine the state of ongoing transformation and political contentions in education in Turkey.

The Gospel and Our Cities: Chicago 2018 will bring together thought leaders and practitioners in key topics around urban ministry: church planting, church renewal, faith & work, and restoring Chicago. If you have a heart for Kingdom work happening in our cities today, you won’t want to miss this event. If you’re still seeking to understand the unique facets of urban ministry, this is the event for you.

Our once a month Friday Happy Hour is simply to hang out with other crypto hodlers! We provide free apps from 5 to 7pm. This is a casual event with no formal presentations. Just hang out, enjoy some food, and talk about Bitcoin with someone who wants to hear about it!

Five Chicago-based architects/offices will select items of the collection and discuss them in relationship to their practice, the discipline, and/or society. Nathaniel Parks, Art and Architecture archivist of the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, will share the history of the same items.

Join us for a presentation about the Envisioning Justice initiative and a moderated discussion as teaching artists, arts administrators, and others participating in Envisioning Justice reflect upon the initiative – with a special focus on what it means for organizations to pursue big initiatives that have multiple communities at their core that cross boundaries between funders, larger non-profits, artists, and community-based organizations, and the tensions and opportunities that arise from this.

Through hands on learning, games, mentorship and leadership activities, each student will complete our program feeling empowered, supported and purposeful in a new way.

Melissa Leger is a Small Business Consultant with Ground Floor Partners she has a wide range of experience from the military, hospitality, financial services, and entrepreneurship. Her passion is helping other entrepreneurs work through the challenges that all small business face. Her expertise lies in systemization, working through employee issues, training, and development, and helping business owners find freedom through their business. In her spare time, she likes to travel, play with her dogs, garden, and cook.

Vice President, External Relations, The Heritage Foundation, Becky Norton Dunlop, discusses trends in environmental law.

Renowned author Sir Max Hastings returns to the Museum & Library to discuss his new modern history of the Vietnam War.