LearnChicago Tours, Seminars and Workshops

LearnChicago! Urban Life Center Week and Weekend Programs Tours & Workshops
Description & pictures of LearnChicago Programs LearnChicago! Program Samples Send me more information on LearnChicago!Tours, Workshops and Seminars, including a brochure and current costs.	Muralist Jose Guerrero talks to students about “Nuestra Sagrada Familia” (Our Sacred Family) by Aurelio Diaz, during a walking tour of Pilsen, a Mexican neighborhood on the city's south side.

The LearnChicago Program opens a door into Chicago beyond the traditional tourist experience.
	Over thirty years of designing programs and tours for groups and classes through our network with community agencies, schools, clinics, businesses, religious and arts organizations combine . . .
to create unforgettable learning excursions for every group we work with.
	Your experience can be organized around a weekend, an entire week, or just a day trip into the city.
All arrangements are made by Urban Life Center, including lodging, meal planning, program schedule, cultural events, staff resources and in-city transportation. Affordable housing available for groups of 7-40.

Visit ethnically diverse neighborhoods and port of entry immigrant communities with a guide from that community

Meet and talk one-on-one with community organizers, artists, performers and political leaders

Get to
know Chicago beyond tourist spots.

Attend unique cultural events such as blues clubs, neighborhood art galleries, and off-loop theater

Learn how to get around the city using the busses and trains

Experience new worship traditions

Explore public policy issues first-hand

Receive a lesson in urban street smarts

Enjoy Chicago's diverse foods

Spend quality time in a service project

Your week can include CTA
training and visits to ethnic neighborhoods!

Chicago's
traditional, authentic restaurants are a great way to get to know a
neighborhood!

Visit tourist spots as
well as out-of-the way treasures.

Reflect on your experiences and perceptions with skilled staff members

LearnChicago! Program Samples
Chicago's Islamic Communities
The Urban Life Center has had connections with Chicago communities since 1970.
The following are some of our most popular programs:

	Business From the corporate skyscrapers downtown to the street vendors at Maxwell Street Market, meet the people who make Chicago’s international and local economy work.
Arts Sample the vitality of a different spectrum of the arts. You will steer off the mainstream for a look at the creative centers of Chicago in music, theater, poetry, dance and performance art. Meet artists in their own environment.		Communication Meet with journalists, media analysts and activists about the role and responsibility of reporting, commentary and social discourse; visit some of the country’s oldest and powerful media brokers and learn from mainstream and alternative thought about subjects of national debate and concern.
	Cultural Diversity Interact with members of the diverse communities that make up Chicago. You will see vibrant neighborhoods, creative artistic expression and rich cultural expression while exploring issues of affirmative action, economic and social disparities.
Heath Care Learn from models of care at the forefront of medicine. Visit clinics, hospitals, research institutions; see the connection between poverty and illness, and the impact of education and public policy.		Education Spend time observing in urban schools and explore models of education that work for diverse populations.
Religion Experience a diversity of worship settings and explore the role of religious organizations and leaders in the city. Learning From our Neighbors: Chicago's Islamic Communities		Send me more information on LearnChicago!Tours, Workshops and Seminars, including a brochure and current costs.

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Urban Life Center
5240 S. Harper Ave., Suite A
Chicago, IL 60615
phone (773) 363-1312
fax (773) 363-5888
email ULCenter@aol.com

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