Community leaders meet with incoming college students to foster civic engagement: ‘There’s no better way to learn about the city than from the people who live and work here'
CHICAGO — About 2,200 incoming freshmen descended on the University of Chicago campus last week to move into their dorms and learn more about what their new home, Chicago, has to offer with “Engage Chicago.” With the help of almost 100 community leaders, the Friday event — part of the school’s annual orientation week for first-year undergraduate students — emphasized all that students might learn from and contribute to the South Side and the city as a whole as new Chicagoans.
About 85 leaders including South Side elected officials, principals, nonprofit directors, board members on neighborhood advisory councils, were on campus in Hyde Park to
