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2025 Healing Arts Chicago: An Arts x Health x Wellness Summit

Saturday, August 30 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

1900 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60612

Free and open to the public! After a powerful citywide celebration in 2024, Healing Arts Chicago returns—bringing another healing-centered, artist-led programming year to clinics and community spaces across the city.

This year’s summit takes place at Malcolm X College and will spotlight artists, healers, community health workers, and resource specialists through the community services and care they provide to contribute to wellness and greater social cohesion.

The summit will also feature the 2025 Healing Arts Chicago cohort—a group of multidisciplinary artists trained as Community Health Workers who have spent this year leading creative wellness pop-ups, forging partnerships, and deepening their outreach. Their work centers the needs of people, blending trauma-informed and harm reduction strategies with the power of art, movement, and storytelling.

Expect a full day of artmaking, workshops, performances, dialogue, and networking, designed to make wellness feel more human, more creative, and more connected to community.

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IMD Commission Meeting

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12 P.M.

2100 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60612

Meeting of the Illinois Medical District Commission.

Rise to Shine Run & Walk 10K / 5K / 1M

Sunday, October 19 at 7:30 a.m.

1310 S Wood St, Chicago, IL 60608

The Chicago Lighthouse Rise to Shine Run & Walk is an annual race in the IMD event that envisions a world without barriers to our physical and digital spaces, where everyone – regardless of ability – can be and feel fully included in their community.

Sign up as an individual, bring your extended family or create a team of friends, and join us in the only 10K/5K/1M event that prioritizes accessibility for all. When you Rise to Shine, you are committing to making our world a more inclusive, accessible and empathetic place.

Proceeds support The Chicago Lighthouse and its programs that help people who are blind, visually impaired, disabled and Veterans build confidence to learn, work and live independently within our community.

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Growing Solutions Farm

May 28 - October 31, 2025

2200 W Campbell Park Dr, Chicago IL 60612

Wednesdays from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and Fridays from 2 – 6 p.m.

Growing Solutions Farm is a 1.2-acre urban farm in the operated by Urban Autism Solutions in the IMD that provides hands-on job training for Chicago public high school transition students (ages 16-22) with autism and related disabilities.

Students learn to harvest food, follow food safety and sanitation guidelines, build raised beds, prepare soil, and maintain compost piles. They also gain transferable job skills by following directions, communicating with coworkers and supervisors, and managing tasks from start to finish. About 50 West Side students train at the farm during the school year. In the summer, 20-25 students work through the One Summer Chicago jobs program, earning wages paid by the City of Chicago.

The farm’s produce is sold at weekly on-site and community farm stands, as well as to restaurants and wholesalers. It also offers an eight-box CSA subscription, with all proceeds directly supporting vocational training programs.

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IMD Commission Meeting

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 12 P.M.

2100 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60612

Meeting of the Illinois Medical District Commission.

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