826CHI | A Non-Profit Writing & Tutoring Center in Chicago

After School Tutoring

The fun starts up again Monday Sept. 13th!
Some Summer!

826CHI students interviewed bands at Pitchfork, wrote tv scripts, poems, movies and more. Visit the Writing Gallery as we continue to post highlights from the summer.
Congratulations!

826CHI volunteer and cartoonist extraordinaire Aaron Renier just published The Unsinkable Walker Bean. Pick up a copy in the Boring Store.
Scrabble for Cheaters

Sign up to compete in a fierce Scrabble tournament where the traditional use of brain power mixes with the alluring use of officially sanctioned cheats!

News & Events

Intern it up!

Friday, September 3rd
5:00pm

Interested in an internship with 826CHI? Application deadline is this Friday, September 3rd at 5:00pm. To learn more about the internship and how to submit your paperwork, please click here.

Field trip registrations begin!

Thursday, September 2nd
9:00am

Teachers, here’s your chance to sign your class up for Storytelling & Bookmaking, My Boring Life: Memoir Writing, or any of our other awesome Field Trip sessions! These opportunities go quickly, so please
sign up early!

826CHI Compendium Vol. 2

June 14–To thunderous applause, 826CHI’s Compendium Vol. 2 was released this weekend at the Printers Row Lit Fest downtown.

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Congratulations Class of 2010!

June 11–Reina Delgado, cap and gowned in the picture here, graduated from Lincoln Park high school today! Reina, the first in her family to claim such a feat (and to do so with distinction to boot – 8th in her class!), was one of our first brave high schoolers to walk through our doors as a Freshman.

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After you "Erase, Write, Type, Sharpen", play and eat

June 10–We wrapped up our amazing year of drop-in-tutoring by throwing a Frisbee, kicking a soccer ball, duck-duck-goosing, running, tagging, jungle gyming and picnicking.

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Mission

826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.

Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.

With this in mind, we provide drop-in tutoring, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications. All of our programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice.

Mission

826CHI shares its space with the Boring Store, Chicago’s only undercover secret agent supply store. The Boring Store outfits its spy-entele with the latest and greatest in espionagical wares. Visit us in Wicker Park and pick up a fresh grappling hook, carrier pigeon, envelope X-ray spray, hollowed-out can of shaving cream, or weather-resistant notebook. All funds raised through the store go to support 826CHI’s free programming.