CIW YOU(th) go behind the scenes with the Chicago Bulls
As a point guard, 15-year-old Charles Tate said he looks up to Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose. So having the opportunity to watch Rose shoot hoops with his teammates in matching...
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Startup founder shreds competition, wins $10,000 at CIW’s Piranha Tank
Four startup founders battled it out Oct. 18 for a giant $10,000 check at Chicago Ideas Week's Piranha Tank – its spinoff of ABC's Shark Tank, where founders pitch their...
Instigators inspire CIW attendees to change the world in small ways
How would you tackle global poverty, wildlife preservation or peace in the Middle East? On Saturday, people like the It Gets Better Project co-founder Dan Savage and Sex and the...
Chicago Ideas Week: Lab attendees visit Mars and Egypt with UIC’s EVL
It's rare to be able to say that one has been both to Egypt and Mars within five minutes, but for participants in UIC's Electronic Visualization Laboratory, this is a...
CIW audience members hear the story behind authors’ greatest works
"Blindness didn't scare me, boredom scared the hell out of me," said legally-blind author Ryan Knighton, one of the five stellar writers who took the stage during Chicago Ideas Week's...
CHIRP Radio Lab teaches the art of interviewing
About 14 people spent their Monday evening learning the ins and outs of production with Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP) studio at 4045 N. Rockwell St. CHIRP Radio is an...
Living Rooms Across America comes to Chicago Ideas Week to end violence
Joseph Jones could have been in prison. At 14 years old, with an absent father and a mother in a coma, Jones shouldered the responsibility of taking care of a...
Chicago Ideas Week: Building Belly
How do you launch a tech company? Why is Chicago a great place to build a business? Listen to Logan LaHive, CEO of digital rewards company Belly, share how he...
Meet the man behind the sculptures: 2013 CIW Artist in Residence Hebru Brantley
Hebru Brantley, the 2013 Artist in Residence for Chicago Ideas Week (CIW), said he learned how to hustle and work hard growing up on the streets of Chicago's South Side....
Chicago Ideas Week’s 2013 Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellows
Who are Chicago Ideas Week's 2013 Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellows? In addition to getting $10,000, these five young social entrepreneurs will speak at CIW in October and have incredible access...