Chicago Cultural Alliance (CCA) is an incredible consortium of museums, cultural centers, and community-based organizations throughout the Chicagoland area. It brings people together from different cultural backgrounds and neighborhoods in order to offer some of the city's most dynamic, inclusive, and creative programming. The events, exhibits, art, and social action initiatives produced by CCA are fun, welcoming, and engaging of people of all ages, backgrounds, and interests. Attend a CCA event in your neighborhood or in an area of the city that you are unfamiliar with and you are guaranteed to eat great food, laugh, create, think critically, and make new friends. CCA offers chicago residents and visitors alike the very best our city...
Read moreThis is a review following my experience with the World Dumpling Festival. I truly felt like this event was poorly planned and executed, and if they ever hope to have people come out again they really need to rethink their approach. $40 for a pre-sale for food tickets that we didn’t even end up using cause we were done. This event was right smack dab in Logan square park on a Saturday and you had 1-2 vendors per stall? Ridiculous. Maybe go back to the drawing board and rethink your ticket price if the quality of your event isn’t going to come close to...
Read moreThis organization does amazing work! It’s unfortunate that their effectiveness in hosting culturally rich events caused a massive barrage of people at the dumpling event that completely inundated the vendor. I might have left a one star review, too, if I was hangry… but a decade and a half of crucial cultural heritage work shouldn’t be undone by one sour event. I hope people can look inside their hearts to give them...
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