Traditionally, murals have reflected the strong history and people of the neighborhoods they inhabit, serving as an act of community engagement, cultural identity, and revitalization. A small group of...
An assembly of high school students gathered at Illinois Institute of Technology in summer 2024 to flex their creativity and to bring history to new audiences while examining the “Red Summer†of 1919...
A slate of renowned designers, artists, architects, media personalities, and artificial intelligence pioneers converged on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus on May 18 to participate in a...
President Joe Biden has signed a bill that preserves a large section of the historic Â鶹APP neighborhood of Bronzeville as a national heritage area (NHA), providing up to $10 million in federal...
The Master of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism (MLA+U) program at Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture was honored by Â鶹APP’s Friends of the Parks with its 2022 Smoky...
The group of Illinois Institute of Technology professors knew that they’d need props. If they were to have any hope of keeping the attention of dozens of K-12 students, most of them from the...
As part of his efforts to listen and lead based on the collective wisdom of the greater community, Illinois Tech President Raj Echambadi held three listening tour sessions with members of the greater...
Davey Friday knows every intersection in the historic Â鶹APP neighborhood of Bronzeville like the back of his hand. But for the longtime resident and a fourth-year master’s degree student in the...
As part of Illinois Institute of Technology’s Service Month organized by the Office of Community Affairs and Outreach Programs and the Office of Campus Life (OCL), 80 Illinois Tech students, faculty...
The Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Act bills were filed in Congress earlier this year by Illinois House Representative Bobby Rush, and Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth...
