826CHI is a non-profit creative writing, tutoring, and publishing center dedicated to amplifying the voices of Chicago youth.
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Chicago’s most chaotic trivia night is back on April 29, 6:00-9:30pm, at the Den Theater!
It’s time to form your trivia team and raise money for 826CHI’s youth writing programs. bit.ly/trivia-cheaters-2026
I’m thankful for family
great friends
people who care about me
An education
that will help me get
as smart as Einstein
Love, why are you so complicated?
Whenever I feel you, I don’t know how to say that I do.
When I try to express you, the words leave my mouth with each nerve-wracking breath.
When I have nothing to do,
you could say that I’m like an apple rotting.
I’m as bored as a seagull sitting all day who can’t
catch a fish.