Chicago, IL ~ Th. 3/21-Tues 3/26Laguna Blanca Grades 9/10 Spring Trip

History music food art literature architecture baseball b-ball football segregation integration nasty politics, mobs, mafia, gangsters, fires, devastation and innovation

Chicago is the ENGINE that drives the settlement of the American West (ideas pulled from William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and Great West, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize)

• With deforestation in WI and MN, and the livestock from Iowa, the grain from IL …
• It becomes the pulsing spot, the systole and the diastole of trees, meat, grain
• The Midwestern center of urban finance
• Key destination in the Great Migration (south to north)

Northern kingdom of jazz & blues > to Chance the Rapper and Noname—New Orleans of the north

• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/noname-room-25-profile-724456/

Known for its sports > Wrigley Field Cubs, The Bulls, The Bears

Known for its theater and comedy > Second City is the starting place of many SNL actors

Renowned art and architecture > World’s Fair/1^st skyscraper, 1^st elevators, Frank Lloyd Wright

From way back: urban riots and resistance / Center-stage of protest 50 years ago at the DNC

Regeneration through myriad nonprofits and empowerment through youth organizations

DRAFT/TENTATIVE

Day 0 Thursday 3/21 Depart Laguna afternoon for LAX flight to Chicago

Day 1 Friday 3/22: The South Side/Hyde Park

• University of Chicago Tour of campus
• Meet nephew Pete Grieve, co-editor-in-chief, at the Chicago Maroon (student newspaper)
• Explore Speakers: The South Side / history / segregation and integration / policing / digital media

Forrest Stuart/University of Chicago Sociology Professor

• http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2016/Chicago-Gangs/
• Forrest Stuart, an assistant professor of sociology at The University of Chicago, examines urban violence, poverty, and social media through research at the street level in places such as LA and Chicago. Down, Out & Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row.

Day 2 Saturday 3/23

• Non-profit visit TBD: I Grow https://www.igrowchicago.org/
• Riverboat architecture tour https://www.timeout.com/chicago/walks-tours/chicagos-best-boat-tours
• Cinema/theater/shopping

Day 3 Sunday 3/24

• Chicago History Museum https://www.chicagohistory.org/
• House of Blues Brunch (12:30 p.m.) https://www.houseofblues.com/chicago
• CHOICE: Sports related experience OR The Art Institute http://www.artic.edu/
• 360 Chicago Observation Deck / Hancock Tower https://360chicago.com/
• Magnificent Mile Shopping https://www.themagnificentmile.com/shopping/

Day 4 Monday 3/25

• TBD Northwestern Memorial Hospital Visit with Dr. Scott Moses, Director of Ob/Gyn; discussion of medical ethics / access to medical care
• TBD WBEZ Chicago visit with reporter Jenn White or Natalie Moore

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/643309816/16-shots-the-police-shooting-of-laquan-mc-donald

• TBD Non-profit https://street-level.urbangateways.org/
  • “Street-Level is a youth multimedia centerwhere young people can participate in video and audio production classes, join clubs, and find a welcoming environment through our Open Lab. Street-Level’s mission is to educate Chicago youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression, communication, and social change.”
• TBD Magnificent Mile Shopping https://www.themagnificentmile.com/shopping/

Day 5 Tuesday 3/2 BIG TBD: Explore contact with Law Enforcement Agency in Chicago to discuss law enforcement perspective on The Hate U Give and national discussions of policing and “stops”

Laquan McDonald history & effect on Mayor Rahm Emmanuel

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/us/laquan-mcdonald-van-dyke.html

Jenn White/WBEZ and Chicago Tribune reporter, 16 Shots Podcast/Laquan McDonald case

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/643309816/16-shots-the-police-shooting-of-laquan-mc-donald

Natalie Moore/WBEZ reporter; The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

• https://abc7chicago.com/society/21st-century-segregation-the-south-side-author-natalie-moore/1255467/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/opinion/rahm-emanuel-chicago-mayor-election-segregation.html

Ideas from Pete Grieve for visiting UChicago’s Maroon

Depending on time, we could discuss different methods for reporting stories. Like how we use anonymous sources (ex. frats), how we find people who are hard to track down (ex. Charles Thomas’s mom) with software and social media, and how we look for public records (ex. filing FOIA requests and getting court documents). If enough Maroon people will be available, we could have your students sit-in on a short editorial board meeting where we debate an issue and try to come to a consensus on a viewpoint the paper could take. We could also do some sort of mock editorial board meeting with the kids if scheduling doesn’t work for Maroon people to have a real one.

(by my friend Lee about a campus police officer “infiltrating” a protest in plainclothes. She probably won’t know if she’ll be in town yet but I will make her come if she is because she is great.) https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/5/17/ucpd-infiltrated-protest-milton-owens-lawsuit/

(further Charles Thomas reading) https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/4/5/mom-student-shot-ucpd-says-family-history-bipolar/

(drugging women) https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/6/2/delta-upsilon-faces-allegations-drugging-female-st/

(student expelled for rape) https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/6/26/fourth-year-student-expelled/