Chicagood is an online magazine launched by The Chi-Town Project. It is a magazine for social conscious Chicagoans that focuses on social awareness issues and those who step up to make Chicago a better place for tomorrow. We also like to have fun and celebrate what it means to be Chicagoan and what is good in our city. Be Chicagood.

    We love saying that we live in the greatest city in the world. The beautiful skylines, innovative monuments and strong-willed spirits that dwell within the city gives us more reason to boast about Chicago’s greatness. However, as we progress into a rapidly changing future, many of our great city’s downfalls become glaringly obvious as we strive to become a world class city. Poverty, corruption, education and gang violence are only few of the many social awareness issues that have surfaced within Chicago’s inner walls.   That’s where The Chi-Town Project steps in. We serve as a platform of fresh ideas, as a series of projects with the ability to ignite passion, discussion and action among Chicagoans for the greater good. Together we can strive for one ultimate goal: guiding Chicago to a better tomorrow. As a curation of social goodness, we celebrate not only the city’s identity but also the achievements that define what makes Chicagood.   Join us as we inspIre. dreAM. aCHIeve.

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Fresh Moves gives a fresh look on ending food deserts

Take a CTA bus, add a grocery store with the initiative to end food deserts in Chicago and there you have Fresh Moves.  Fresh Moves is an organization in the city of Chicago that aims to end food deserts through a mobile produce market. The organization took an old CTA bus and revamped into a mobile produce market that travels to different neighborhoods delivering fresh fruits and vegetables.

After three community activists Steve Casey, Sheelah Muhammad and Jeff Pinzino came together it was decided that the Fresh Moves non-for-profit would address the issue of neighborhoods in Chicago not having direct access to healthy fresh foods.

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Truck Farm Chicago Helps Kids Understand What They’re Eating

On Good Magazine’s Good Maker, rounding out the Top 3 in March’s challenge is a Chicago start up called Truck Farm. During the Month of March, Good readers nominated local woman who makes a world of difference. Truck Farmer, Shari Brown got the nod and deserving so.

The idea is simple. Shari took a biodiesel pickup truck and planted a mini farm in its bed and then toured Chicago connecting over 2700 kids to good food in 2011. This “Garden on Wheels” is a traveling education tool. Shari’s passion for sharing good food and educating people is very contagious. Through the Truck Farm project she was able to teach and empower young Chicagoans to be active, grow food locally, cook and eat healthy. They like to say that what they do  shows that good food can be grown anywhere there’s sun, space, and creativity. And we agree. This project is so simple and creative but will be so valuable and effective to our communities!

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Walgreens to Expand Hiring Disabled

Walgreens, the nation’s largest drug store chain headquarted in Deerfield, IL is piloting a program to hire cognitively and physically disabled employees in its retail stores across the country.

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5th annual Restaurant Week Kicks Off

For ten days, over 200 restaurants will offer special prix fixe menus starting at $22 for lunch and $33/$44 for dinner. This a great opportunity to get out and dine out in Chicago on a budget.

For a complete list of all the restaurants participating this year, check out Restaurant Week Chicago. 

 

Which restaurants will you be hitting up?

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Chicago History 101: Take a Bite Out of Chicago History

Chicago has a lot of history and great food. Put them together and you have a city of amazing food culture. In observance of Chicago Restaurant week Domu has put together a comprehensive list of Chicago’s oldest food establishments. There are 58 in total and many have been around for hundreds of years! Check out the full list after the jump.

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History of Chicago Style BBQ- WARNING: BIBS ARE REQUIRED

Chicago style BBQ is a mysterious one that has slipped under the radar compared to the better known styles of such places as Texas and Carolina. Chicago is home to some of the most amazing soul food and southern cuisine, but curiously Chicago’s BBQ scene has never found a foot among BBQ enthusiasts. We ask ourselves, is there a Chicago style BBQ? And if there is what defines Chicago BBQ? We turn to Michael Gebert’s Sky Full of Bacon for answers. Check out the video after the jump.

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