The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) has begun to fulfill Rahm Emmanuel’s campaign promise to draft a comprehensive cultural plan for the City of Chicago. We haven’t had a new one since 1986 when Mayor Harold Washington first established the Dept.
Just a year after former Mayor Daley did a gut job on the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) over the strenuous objections of long-time Cultural Commish Lois Weisberg, the new mayor and his new Commish, Michelle T.
The deadline for promoters responding to the request for proposals to privatize Taste of Chicago, the Blues Festival, and the five other soon-to-be-formerly-free city music festivals was 4 p.m.
What a week in news! Everyone is putting their best work forward this week, so we can phone it in for the rest of the month.Take a long look. Yep, city stickers cost that much. Sure, take a picture with your phone. That'll help.
Chicago arts will lose one of its best friends Dec. 30 with retirement of Janet Carl Smith, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA).
