Chicago City Council approves Veterans Business Enterprise Program

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CHICAGO — In a unanimous vote,June 18th 2025, the Chicago City Council approved the Veterans Business Enterprise (VBE) Program as a permanent program within the Department of Procurement Services (DPS), building on the success of the VBE pilot program. Read more [...]

SURVIVING THE LONG WARS Summit

The summit features the STLW performance program and concluding discussion series of the yearlong NEH Dialogues on the Experience of War program. There will also be poetry readings, panels, artmaking and movement workshops, a portfolio review, exhibition tours, fifteen-minute Open Platform presentations, and more. March 16 – 19, 2023 | Newberry Library, Hyde Park Art Center, & the Chicago Cultural Center Read more [...]

City Hall Press Conference Photos on May 24, 2016

A group of concerned veterans attended a Press Conference on Tuesday May 24, at City Hall. We were there to express the concerns of veterans in Chicago and Illinois and to call on those running for elective office to have a well thought out, comprehensive program for the veteran community which we represent. We call on veterans themselves to stand up and be counted; vote for those candidates with a veterans program that supports and benefits our community. Read more [...]