SUPPORT OUR MISSION

WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU!

SUPPORT OUR MISSION ✶ WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU! ✶

Your donation empowers CIVL to continue our fight to support Chicago's Independent Venue Scene and Performing Arts Culture. Every dollar is a huge help towards our ability to champion the vitality, wellness, and safety of Independent venue staff, patrons, and artists. You are helping us sustain the Chicago arts culture, and we are grateful!

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$500 million

in COVID-19 relief funding secured for Illinois performing arts venues.

$120,000
to 220 artists

and venue workers facing reductions in income.

279,622

calls made to Congress by Illinoisans on behalf of independent venues.

ZERO

member venues permanently closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our programs and relief efforts have broadened to incorporate support for the workers and artists who enliven Chicago’s world-class venues, and we’ve fostered cooperation between non-profit, public, and private sector arts organizations as we work to empower Chicago’s creative community.

Venues across the city fully reopen, getting thousands of creative-sector employees back to work. CIVL is awarded a Culture Snaps feature in the Chicago Cultural Center, honoring neighborhood cultural assets.

For our supporters mailing a check, please use the following address:

CIVL
2027 W. Division St #225
Chicago, IL 60622


CIVL is a 501(c)6 non-profit entity.