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
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