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UI in Action

  • 5th Anniversary Work to Play Cup Presented by Target

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    The Urban Initiatives Work to Play Cup is our annual celebration of Urban Initiatives’ program participants and their achievements during the school year. The 5th Anniversary Work to Play Cup Presented by Target drew over 2,000 people, including 1,300 K-4th grade children; over 200 5th-8th grade Team Captains; players’ families representing 41 Chicago Public Schools. Urban…

  • Soccer60 Joins the Game

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    On any given Friday when most students are going home for the weekend, Urban Initiatives teams from all over the city are getting on the bus to travel and play soccer with their peers at different schools. They’ve been getting excited all week, and now they’re putting on their bright uniforms, representing their school, and…

  • Huron Consulting Kicks Off the Spring with UI

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    On Friday, May 12, a group of volunteers from Huron Consulting joined our Work to Play and Take the Lead participants on the grassy fields at Prieto Math and Science Academy. Urban Initiatives student-athletes from Prieto, Morton, and Ravenswood came together for an afternoon of soccer and friendship. The sun warmed the fields, and parents…

    Huron Consulting Kicks Off the Spring with UI

  • Earth Day Clean Up in Englewood

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    Earth Day was founded in 1970 to promote respect for life on the planet as well as to encourage awareness threats to that life, especially pollution. Advocates usually celebrate on April 22nd with outdoor performances and acts of service to environment including planting trees, picking up roadside trash, conducting various programs for recycling and conservation.…

    Earth Day Clean Up in Englewood

  • Allstate Gives Back to Urban Initiatives

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    On Friday April 7th, nearly 120 Take the Lead Team Captains ventured to Allstate Insurance’s headquarters in Northbrook, Illinois, for the fourth retreat of this year’s season. Team Captains were greeted by Allstate volunteers and began the day with a delicious, healthy breakfast. Following breakfast and hearing a few opening remarks by Allstate and UI…

  • GSD&M Scores Goals with Urban Initiatives

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    On a sunny but cool afternoon on April 6, students and parents from NTA, Tarkington, and Walsh ventured to Chicago Indoor Sports for a fun filled Thursday game day. UI staff and volunteers from GSD&M greeted the children as they trickled in. Students from Walsh arrived first and, following warm-ups led by their Take the…

  • PwC Joins UI for Game Day

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    Chicago Indoor Sports played host to an exciting UI game day on Friday, March 24. Students from Lee, Ward, and Reavis and a contingent of PwC volunteers enjoyed the afternoon together, which was filled with fun and healthy competition as the three teams scrimmaged against one another. Volunteers from PwC and the UI staff could…

  • UI Students Visit the Nike SNEAKEASY

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    On Saturday March 25th our friends from Nike Chicago invited a group of Urban Initiatives students to an experience not many people get. They each got a first-hand look at Nike’s latest innovation, the Nike VaporMax which was introduced at their SNEAKEASY. The secret space told the history of Nike’s storied sneaker franchise, the Air…

    UI Students Visit the Nike SNEAKEASY