I have been fortunate enough to visit Chicago twice; once in 2004 and once in 2013.
My first visit was in 2004 with my church youth group. We roadtriped to Chicago to work with an organization called Jesus People USA. We did so much work there but the things that stand out were working at a halfway house, visiting elderly people, going thrift shopping, putting tire pieces on a playground, working at a soup kitchen and learning how the organization worked throughout Chicago. Thrift shopping was the most fun. We were each given $5 to shop with and had to pick out as much as we could with that five dollars without going over. We then had a fashion show to see who could get the most with their money. The other was putting the tire pieces down on the playground. We had a nice assembly line going and used the single black bucket (the rest were white) to keep track of how many buckets we used. The first photo below is with our 100th black bucket (I'm in the white holding the bucket). We also had one free night in Chicago where we walked around and ate some of the famous deep dish pizza! The photo quality isn't very good because most of these were scanned.
My second trip to Chicago was in 2013. My friend Heather was living there at the time for an internship and needed help moving back. I flew out there and was only in Chicago for all of 8 hours before we started our drive back. It was supposed to be longer but some other stuff came up and we had to cut it short. We did get some sight seeing in and had a delicious lunch before getting on the road. It was probably for the best because it was freaking freezing!!
My first visit was in 2004 with my church youth group. We roadtriped to Chicago to work with an organization called Jesus People USA. We did so much work there but the things that stand out were working at a halfway house, visiting elderly people, going thrift shopping, putting tire pieces on a playground, working at a soup kitchen and learning how the organization worked throughout Chicago. Thrift shopping was the most fun. We were each given $5 to shop with and had to pick out as much as we could with that five dollars without going over. We then had a fashion show to see who could get the most with their money. The other was putting the tire pieces down on the playground. We had a nice assembly line going and used the single black bucket (the rest were white) to keep track of how many buckets we used. The first photo below is with our 100th black bucket (I'm in the white holding the bucket). We also had one free night in Chicago where we walked around and ate some of the famous deep dish pizza! The photo quality isn't very good because most of these were scanned.
My second trip to Chicago was in 2013. My friend Heather was living there at the time for an internship and needed help moving back. I flew out there and was only in Chicago for all of 8 hours before we started our drive back. It was supposed to be longer but some other stuff came up and we had to cut it short. We did get some sight seeing in and had a delicious lunch before getting on the road. It was probably for the best because it was freaking freezing!!
