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$5 Million For Chicago Public Library Branch at Obama Presidential Center

Chicago Commitment
Leaders for a New Chicago
Human Rights
New Fund to Support Transitional Justice Efforts in Africa
Impact Investments
$150 Million in Catalytic Capital to Help Address Critical Social Challenges
Defending Human Rights in Mexico
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Chicago Stories

Rethinking Justice, via the Arts

Meet the 2018 MacArthur Fellows

25 Extraordinarily Creative People Who Inspire Us All
Doris Tsao
Neuroscientist
Grantees In the Media

Arts & Culture in Chicago
"Can Art Revive South Chicago? These Artists Are Trying to Infuse New Life into the Neighborhood"
Block Club Chicago

Chicago Commitment
"Field Foundation Gives 14 Chicagoans $50,000 for a ‘New Chicago’"
WBEZ

On Nigeria
"UBEC to Adopt Open Contracting Data Standards to Eradicate Corruption"
Sundiata Post

MacArthur Fellows
"The Gulf of Mexico's Expanding Dead Zone"
NPR
Related fellow: Nancy Rabalais, 2012 MacArthur Fellow

Arts & Culture in Chicago
"Review: 'Internal Geometry' by Natya Dance Theatre Is Hardly Radical But Has Women Telling the Story"
Chicago Tribune

MacArthur Fellows
"Vijay Gupta Asks Big Questions"
San Francisco Classical Voice
Related fellow: Vijay Gupta, 2018 MacArthur Fellow
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