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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Chicago Zombie Survival Map

Zombie Survival Guide Chicago

The city of Chicago has become overrun with the fast spreading zombie virus. With a population of 9.8 million folks in the Chicagoland area, you’re in some big doodoo. Yup, you’ve got your 1st grade crush, your hated math teacher, the neighborhood cat lady and boss all a little undead and all glad to see you. But a big city offers lots of resources so you still have a fighting chance. Quickly stock up on supplies and get the heck out or bunker down somewhere and make a stand. But where do you go to get your water, medical supplies and food? Well there’s an app for that. Doejo has created a web app, Map of the Dead that shows what’s useful around you.

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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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