Chi Hack Night

06/27/2023

Join us tomorrow night at 7pm on our livestream (https://youtube.com/chihacknight/live) for a presentation from Dr. Ngozi Ezike, President & CEO, Sinai Chicago (she/her). Dr. Ezike has served as President & CEO of Sinai Chicago since 2022. Previously, she served as Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), where she navigated the state through the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this talk, Sinai Chicago’s President & CEO, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, will discuss the critical role that healthcare data systems can play in addressing health disparities and advancing health equity. She’ll introduce a major initiative Sinai Chicago has undertaken to advance modern healthcare data infrastructure and technology for its own patients and communities. She’ll also speak to the role Chicago’s civic tech community can play in helping advance health equity through enhanced data and technology infrastructure.

https://chihacknight.org/events/2023/06/27/sinai-chicago.html

In this talk, Sinai Chicago's President & CEO, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, will discuss the critical role that healthcare data systems can play in addressing health disparities and advancing health equity. She'll introduce a major initiative Sinai Chicago has undertaken to advance modern healthcare data infras...

07/12/2022

Tomorrow night we are celebrating our 500th Chi Hack Night event! Join us starting at 6pm in person or 6:30pm on the YouTube livestream. For this very special in-person hack night, the presenters will be YOU! We’re bringing back LIGHTNING TALKS from members of our community.

There will also be:
tacos!
cupcakes!
a photo booth!
friends!
and, of course, civic hacking fun for all!

July 12, 2022 will mark the 500th episode of Chi Hack Night. That’s 10 years! For this very special in-person hack night, the presenters will be YOU! We’re bringing back LIGHTNING TALKS from members of our community.

05/30/2022

Join us online Tuesday night to hear from the Sustainability Team in the Office of the Mayor about Chicago's 2022 Climate Action Plan!

Chicago's new climate goals set a course to reduce the city's carbons emissions 62% by 2040. Anchored in values of economic inclusion and savings, pollution burden reduction, and equitable access to critical infrastructure and community health and resilience, the 2022 CAP prioritizes delivering mean...

04/17/2021

What is white supremacy culture and how does it show up in civic tech?

04/10/2021

Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
What does it mean to be anti-racist? What is white supremacy culture and how does it show up? Over the past months, Chi Hack Night’s DEI committee has discussed and researched these questions. Now, Chi Hack Night Board Members Ryan Spencer, Derek Eder and Samantha Evans will share what we learned in our recent blog post so that we can all work to make our communities more equitable and just. https://chihacknight.org/events/2021/04/13/anti-racist-in-civic-tech.html

04/10/2021

When the Cook County State's Attorney's Office came to Chi Hack Night, they explained how they created process visualizations for the justice system that helped residents make sense of their open data. Now residents are asking much deeper questions about the data.

04/09/2021

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office 's data team spends a lot of time thinking about how to better help people use their data. Check out the whole video to learn more. https://youtu.be/e8B1nMXgTTY?t=862

10/06/2020

Join us tonight at 7pm CT for a presentation about gender equity in tech by GET Cities. The GET Cities team will share findings from researching the problem of gender equality in Chicago’s tech community and discuss how they're working to build a more inclusive future. More info about tonight's event here:

Over the last decade, representation of women and marginalized genders in tech has remained largely unchanged. Women currently comprise only 26% of jobs in the computing workforce, and among those women, only 12% are Black or Latinx women. We’re working to change that. Gender Equality in Tech (GET...

09/08/2020

Join us TONIGHT at 7pm CT via livestream to hear from Jennifer Brandel of Hearken about Election SOS, a collaborative initiative from a variety of news-support organizations (Hearken, The American Press Institute, Trusting News) designed to provide journalists with critical election info.

Election SOS is a collaborative initiative from a variety of news-support organizations designed to provide journalists with critical election information needs. With the election weeks away and mail-in voting already active in many states, Election SOS is interested in hearing from civically engage...

08/31/2020

Important conversation coming up Tuesday night on the perils of new alternatives to jails and prisons. See you Tues!

In their new book, Prison by Any Other Name, the speakers delve into the way in which many popular policing and prison reforms actually expand the system of criminalization. These reforms include a range of tech-based

08/01/2020

Coming to a Tuesday near you...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, The Chicago Reporter and WBEZ have been collaborating to build tools and graphics to help everyday Illinoisans navigate the crisis and understand how COVID-19 is affecting their communities. Chicago Reporter editor Mustufa, former Chicago Reporter editor David Eads and WBEZ producer Paula Friedrich will walk through how these tools were made and share lessons learned from their collaborative effort to meet critical information needs in a rapidly changing environment.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, The Chicago Reporter and WBEZ have been collaborating to build tools and graphics to help everyday Illinoisans navigate the crisis and understand how COVID-19 is affecting their communities. Through reporting-driven design and development, we've published a range...