Chatham Education & Workforce Center

The first floor is home to office, classroom/group meeting spaces and a state-of-the art manufacturing classroom/Maker Lab where instruction will be provided by the Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC), and Richard J. Daley College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. Courses offered in the Lab will include blueprint reading, introduction to electrical circuitry, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and metrology (the science of measurement) – an important aspect of advanced manufacturing.

The second floor boasts a career center managed by KRA, computer lab/resource room and a large, sun-soaked multi-purpose room with capacity for more than 100 people for hiring events or community gatherings.

The Greater Chatham Initiative (GCI), calls the Center home. Launched in June 2016, GCI, a non-profit organization, performs the role of a local anchor institution—by coordinating, planning and fundraising for key synergistic community initiatives. It drives and links comprehensive neighborhood and economic growth.