Are you interested in growing your own food at home? Tune in to Chicago Market's online workshop with Kasey Eaves, owner of Vivant Gardening Services, who will be giving us tips and tricks on growing your own edible plants in containers and window boxes.

RSVP and get growing with us!

Our presenter, Kasey Bersett Eaves, Owner #70, started growing edibles and her treasured sunflowers at age two on family farm property in southern Illinois. As owner of Vivant Gardening Services, she spends her days gardening with edibles, natives, and pollinator plants approachable to area residents, restaurants, schools, and more. Never daunted by the task of growing in a city’s unusual spaces, Kasey loves finding creative and easily maintained growing solutions for city dwellers.

Chicago Market's Board welcomed Owners on Zoom Saturday afternoon for a chance to hear about our site updates in-person (well, as in-person as the current situation allows!), to answer questions, and most importantly, learn how they can lean in and support their Co-op. 

Have a question for the Chicago Market Board?
Want to see the Board in action?

Chicago Market Board meetings are open to all Owners,
and now conducted via Zoom!
(accessible on all phones, tablets and computer platforms)

RSVP and we'll email Owners the Zoom login info shortly before the meeting. 

You just need to let us know you'll be coming (by RSVP'ing below!) and whether you'll be needing comment time. (Owners can speak for up to 5 minutes, and we'll be capping comment time to 30 minutes per Board meeting.)

Please send any questions for the Board in advance to board@chicagomarket.coop.

Have a question for the Chicago Market Board?
Want to see the Board in action?

Chicago Market Board meetings are open to all Owners,
and now conducted via Zoom!
(accessible on all phones, tablets and computer platforms)

RSVP and we'll email Owners the Zoom login info shortly before the meeting. 

You just need to let us know you'll be coming (by RSVP'ing below!) and whether you'll be needing comment time. (Owners can speak for up to 5 minutes, and we'll be capping comment time to 30 minutes per Board meeting.)

Please send any questions for the Board in advance to board@chicagomarket.coop.

If you've walked or driven past the Gerber Building in the last couple of months, you've probably noticed something:  Construction on Chicago Market has not yet begun. Our project has faced a number of serious challenges over the past six months, and we'd like to share them with you. We believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but it will require understanding, commitment, and the ability to, if necessary, adjust our plans. We are as committed as ever to doing everything possible to get Chicago Market open.

Natural! Organic! Cage-free! Certified Humane! Hormone-free! Raised without antibiotics! Vegetarian-fed! Non-GMO project certified! Global Animal Partnership Step 5+! Wait, what?

Transparency is part of Chicago Market’s Purchasing Values - we believe everyone should know what they’re eating and how it got to their plate. But just having labels isn’t transparency if nobody has the time or energy to figure out what they mean.

Artist Mara Baker’s Chameleon Blind Window Project connects vacant storefronts with the streetscape outside. By filling the empty windows with the colors and patterns of the city, Baker integrates the empty space back into public life. Her installation in the Chicago Market space is a collaboration between Chicago Market and Business Partners, The Chamber for Uptown, supported by a Public Art Grant. The installation is on display in the windows of the Chicago Market building and will be lit up each evening. Stop by our storefront in the Gerber Building at the Wilson CTA station to see it!

Attend: Chameleon Blind: Uptown Public Art Opening

A. Jordan Rothschild is a residential real estate broker with @properties. His real estate business, Bike Home Chicago, recently became Chicago Market Business Owner #1803. Jordan gives clients the option to tour homes by bicycle or car. He understands the demand in the community for a store like Chicago Market and is excited to see the space come to life.