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City Bureau's Public Newsroom: Chicago Votes

Published on Jun 30, 2020

Chicago Votes Executive Director Stevie Valles joins us to share how the organization has been working to make voting more accessible for Illinoisans and give a brief history of voter suppression in the US. Chicago Votes is “is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans.”

You can read more about them here: https://chicagovotes.com/accomplishments/.

This event is part of City Bureau’s Public Newsroom programming, a series of free workshops that highlight community efforts to provide mutual aid, meet information needs and hold space for joy.

For more info on past and future Public Newsroom workshops and to becoming a sustaining member of City Bureau, visit www.citybureau.org