Issue 1

AREA Chicago #1 was released on September 5th 2005 at Ping Tom Park in Chicago.

Here is the original Call for proposals circulated in May 2005 

Table of Contents

• Editorial Introduction: Inheriting the Grid #1 by Daniel Tucker
• Issue 1 Credits

AREA News

• Introducing: Urban/Rural/Wild by Sarah Kanouse & Nicholas Brown
• Give or Take: Chicago by Salem Collo-Julin
• Mutual Aid Phonebook interview by Daniel Tucker
• Community Referrals by Kristen Cox

Our AREA

• Dear Chicago, from Mess Hall
• Buddy 2002-2005 by Ed Marszewski & Matt Malooly
• Introducing: 49th Street Underground 
• Burgeoning Blackstone by Gabriel Piemonte
• Convert Your Car by Zoe Ginsburg
• Neighborhood Orchard by Nance Klehm
• In Memoriam: Carlos Koyokuikatl Cortez by Jesus Macarena-Avila
• Beatz and Rhymez: The Mighty Roar of Kuumba Lynx by Bonnie Fortune
• Fire on the Prairie interview by Daniel Tucker
• Art Project: YOU ARE _____ by You Are Beautiful
• Image Folio: Chicago Street Art Archive by Josh MacPhee

AREA Special Section: Private Parties, Public Services – Experiences of Privatization, Service Cuts and Local Change

• Section Introduction: Whose City is it, Anyway? by Pauline Lipman
• Fight or Walk by Midwest Unrest
• Sex in the Age of Environmental Disaster by Jeff Edwards
• A Lesson In Good Intentions or Dude, Where’s My Arts Ed Grant? by Anonymous 
• CHAos Created Change by Micah Maidenberg
• On June 18th by Amanda Torres and Anna West
• Position on Renaissance 2010 by Teachers for Social Justice
• Worker-Run Factories and Chicago Neighborhoods that Need Them by Ryan Hollon 
• Jamie Kalven interviewed about View From The Ground