Chicago Birthday Party Planning Meeting
Attend the Chicago Birthday Party Planning Meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 19, 2024, at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 3658 S. Honore St., Chicago.
The planning meeting gets the community together around supporting and hosting Chicago's 188th Birthday Party on March 4, 2025, at the geographic center of Chicago.
Chicago's Birthday Party is a now-annual event at which Chicagoans sing Happy Birthday to Chicago in multiple languages that represent our communities at the geographic center of Chicago, and enjoy cake and cameraderie with each other. Click here for coverage of Chicago's 187th Birthday Party.
Chicago's Birthday Party is a non-commercial, community-led, volunteer-driven event being produced with support of local institutions and enterprises, including the McKinley Park News, St. Andrew Lutheran Church, the 12th Ward, the Coalition for a Better Chinese-American Community, the McKinley Park Underage Drinking and Other Substances Abuse Coalition (McK-UDOS), Evergreen Academy Middle School, the McKinley Park Civic Association, Evergreen Academy Middle School, Namaste Charter School, Nathanael Greene Elementary School, Bethany Baptist Church, Aquinas Literacy Center, Tu Casa Guanajuato en Chicago, Pepsico, Cadinho Bakery, Horizon Science Academy - McKinley Park, Captain Chicago and others joining our growing coalition.
We welcome engagement and involvement from more qualified groups from our community — and sponsors — and invite them to take part and attend the planning meeting. To RSVP to attend the planning meeting, send email to justinkerr@mckinleypark.news.
