Our Collaborations

We work with organizations who share our curiosity about what makes a good city. If you, like us, are engaged in interactive, participatory interventions to transform our neighborhoods’ perceived limitations to make them more connected, accessible, and equitable, then we’d love to find a way to collaborate. Please email us at hello@goodcitygroup.com.

39th Ward of Chicago serves the communities of Jefferson Park, Forest Glen, Edgebrook, and Gladstone Park.

40th Ward, Alderman Andre Vasquez, Andersonville, Lincoln Square, Edgewater, Arcadia Terrace, and Bowmanville.

45th Ward of Chicago serves Jefferson Park, Albany Park, and Sauganash.

50th Ward of Chicago serves West Ridge and Indian Boundary Park.

AARP Community Challenge Grant program is part of the nationwide AARP Livable Communities initiative that helps communities become great places to live for residents of all ages. GCG was awarded a Capacity-Building Microgrant in 2023.

Alex Young is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose research-based practice examines ruderal ecologies, systems, species, and spaces as well as forms of human and other-than-human co-creation. They currently reside in Pittsburgh, PA where they are the Media Manager for Video & Media Design in the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University.

Alliance Française de Chicago promotes French culture to Chicagoans and is among the oldest cultural institutions in the city.

America Walks is leading the way in advancing walkable, equitable, connected, and accessible places in every community across the U.S. Good City Group received a Community Change Grant from America Walks in 2022.

Art on Sedgwick and the Hudson Street Community Collaborative in the Old Town/Cabrini Green neighborhood. Art on Sedgwick is dedicated to fostering creativity and connecting communities through the power of art.

Association for Community Design (ACD) envisions a practice of design that dismantles systemic injustice and creates an equitable built environment.

The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating an international forum on architecture and urbanism.

Chicago Department of Planning and Development promotes the comprehensive growth and well-being of the City and its neighborhoods.

Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) is responsible for public way infrastructure, including planning, design, construction, maintenance and management.

Chicago Velo offers guided tours from the perspective of a local cyclist and presents how to be a happy, safe, and well-prepared cyclist in the world’s greatest city, Chicago.

Experimental Sound Studio is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization dedicated to artistic evolution and the creative exploration of sound. As an international hub for sonic experimentation, ESS nurtures artists, heralds new works, and builds a broad, supportive community of makers, enthusiasts, and creative partners through production, presentation, education, and preservation.

Edgebrook Historical Society was established to research/preserve/educate all persons interested in the greater Edgebrook, Sauganash, and Forest Glen communities of Chicago.

Eric Leonardson, a Chicago-based audio artist, is co-founder and President of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and Vice-President of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. He is an Professor Adjunct in Art and Technology/Sound Practices at SAIC. As a performer, composer, sound designer, and inventor, he performs internationally and promotes acoustic ecology, connecting communities through sound, listening, and the environment.

Forest Glen Community Club is dedicated to bringing Forest Glen neighbors together for social and civic causes.

Forest Preserve District of Cook County acquires, restores, and manages lands for the purpose of protecting and preserving public open space.

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

Jane’s Walk is a community-based approach to city building that uses volunteer-led walking tours to make space for people to observe, reflect, share, question, and re-imagine the places in which they live, work, and play.

Jeanette Dominguez is a Tejana living in the Midwest who is passionate about sound. She loves going on walks, listening for the everyday interplay of harmonies and textures in the built and natural environment. She also loves experiencing sound in community with others. Whether mixing on film sets, or collaborating in teaching artist partnerships with Free Spirit Media and Hear Below Soundwalks, collaboration fuels her creative drive.

Founded in 1934, the Jefferson Park Chamber of Commerce was organized to advance the business, civic, and social of its members and to enhance the welfare of the entire Jefferson Park community.

Jefferson Park Neighborhood Association provides a shared vision of the neighborhood to move it into the next century while maintaining its small-town atmosphere.

Lindsey French (they/she) is an artist, educator and writer whose work engages multisensory signaling within ecological and technological systems. Lindsey earned a BA from Hampshire College in 2010, and an MFA in Art and Technology Studies in 2013 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They currently live in Treaty 4 in Regina, Saskatchewan and teach in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina.

Nadig Newspapers has been in business for 70 years and prides itself on serving the Far Northwest side of Chicago.

Northwest Chicago Historical Society’s mission is to educate others about the history of the Northwest neighborhoods of Chicago.

Sam Anthem is an interdisciplinary sound, performance, and media artist who seeks to illuminate, turn upside down, and animate naturalized status quos. Weaving conceptual threads across archives, bodies, species, and sociality, their work addresses knowledge systems and material relationships through sonic, technological, and performative encounters.

The School of the Art Institute, Architecture, Interior Architecture, Designed Objects department is creative across disciplines and engages with the community at SAIC, Chicago, and the world. It values the craft that brings ideas into the world; the research that informs criticality, and the compelling stories told about the work it does.

SpaceShift is a creative hub for collaboration and experimentation. They are an amorphous collective of artists, creatives and change-makers rethinking the ways in which we work, live, and create.

The Society of Architectural Historians promotes the study, interpretation, and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes, and urbanism worldwide for the benefit of all.

Vamonde is an urban storytelling platform that brings hidden stories to life in the very places where they happened.

Villa Albertine is reinventing artists’ residencies, creating a network for arts and ideas spanning France and the United States.