Chicago Ideas
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things.
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It Takes a Community: Building Opportunity Through Inclusion
Life's Big Questions: A Conversation with Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot
The Man Behind the Medicine with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Common Addresses Violence through Art & Technology
Election Barriers, Voter Turnout, and Dysfunctional Democracy
Using Technology to Punish Your Children
CPD Superintendent David Brown on Community Policing
Chicago Ideas is Connection, Impact, Change
Does work from home work?
Is the human genome important?
Questlove Talks the Art of Food
Melvin Gregg on Making His Dreams His Reality
The Effect of Journalism on Politics
Don't Stop Believing: Life Changing Music
Why Sharing Your Story of Loss is Healing
LeVar Burton Wants to Revolutionize Storytelling with Screens
Yusef Salaam on What He Learned From Adversity
Justice Richard Bernstein on Relentlessly Pursuing His Passion
The Power of Love to Make You Stronger
Jeremy Zimmer on Changing Office Culture at United Talent Agency
Optimizing Algorithms with the VP of Product Design at Facebook
Judy Smith on Responding to a Crisis
How Can We Find Political Unity - Cleo Wade
Saeed Jones on the Importance of Stories
Why Bozoma Saint John Took on Fixing Uber
Can love save men from toxic masculinity?
Mary Elliott on Historical Knowledge in Objects
Access Granted: Leveling the Playing Field in Entrepreneurship
Can language barriers make you a better artist?
Mind the Gap: An Exploration of Community Reinvestment