Space

Cermak Road Creative Industry District

New Zoning Allows More Arts + Entertainment Uses
Imagine recording your music in the factory where Muddy Waters worked.  Or mounting a theater production where The Untouchables was filmed.  Envision creating and manufacturing your fashion line in a shared workspace overlooking the Chicago River, with a view of downtown Chicago....

The Chicago Department of Community Development and the Department of Cultural Affairs invite you to be the first to see work, office and entertainment space of the newly designated Cermak Road Creative Industry District.
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Selected Articles

LINC: Creating Affordable Artist Space

Are you trying to focus on your art but worrying instead about getting evicted from your studio? Are you looking for affordable space to work or perhaps create your own live/work digs but don't know where to turn? Do you spend more time worrying about zoning codes, financing, and development than on your own creative process…but feel you have no choice? LINC is working to help you find the answers you need.

LINC - short for Leveraging Investments in Creativity - was established as a ten-year initiative to support individual artists around the country. We recognize that in many communities, artists are being forced to become "developers by default," particularly in markets with high housing costs, limited supply of space, and/or areas where the space does not meet their unique needs. LINC is working to help artists find accessible information and support, to answer complex questions related to the development of affordable space.

Selected Chicago-City Links

Selected NYFA Requests

Dance Venues

Courtesy of New York Foundation for the Arts and their NYFA Source national database of awards services and publications for the arts.

Housing Information and Subsidies

Courtesy of New York Foundation for the Arts and their NYFA Source national database of awards services and publications for the arts.

Space Awards

Courtesy of New York Foundation for the Arts and their NYFA Source national database of awards services and publications for the arts.

Space Related Health and Safety

Courtesy of New York Foundation for the Arts and their NYFA Source national database of awards services and publications for the arts.

Theater Venues

Courtesy of New York Foundation for the Arts and their NYFA Source national database of awards services and publications for the arts.