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A LOVE LETTER TO CHICAGO

WHAT IS MESS HALL?
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CAN EXPERIMENTAL CULTURAL CENTERS REPLACE MFA PROGRAMS?

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Morse Hell Hole

I Love Morse Ave

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Lifeline Theatre


Red Door Animal Shelter

Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society

Housing Opportunities for Women

Special links: Love Letter to Chicago in AREA | Metal Fest on Ausgang.com | In the Field's Mess Hall flier | Open Source / Open Ear images

Mess Hall runs on the generosity of those who use it. This allows us to provide everything for free - from food and drinks to workshops and events. Please bring things to share with others.

Workshops - It is important to us to share knowledge and build up a culture of participation, access, and empowerment rather than of competition, intellectual property, and proprietary information.

Printed material - we have a library of publications from all over the world that are available for visitors' perusal.

Mess Hall is a place for visual culture, creative urbanism, sustainable ecology, food democracy, radical politics, and cultural experimentation. We are networked with other intiatives like ours in Chicago, the U.S. and abroad.

It's a messy Chicago:
Area | Chicago Indymedia | Resource Center | ACLU IL | Just Seeds | FuckCorporateGroceries.net | Center for Neihgborhood Technology | Illinois Stewardship Alliance | T.H.O.N.G. | GeneWise | Chicago Critical Mass | Friends of the Bloomindale Trail | Quimby's | Working Bikes Coop | People Powered | Artistical | The Baffler | In These Times | Pilot TV | Ausgang | Forever Free and Clear | Chicago FreeCycle | Heartland Alliance | DSLR | Video Data Bank | Texas Ballroom | Video Machete | Locus | Polvo | Archeworks | Lucky Pierre | Illinois NORML | Save the Point | Newtopia | Sound Opinions | Chicago School of Media Theory | Hyde Park Co-op | Asian American Artists Collective | Lao Szechuen | Deadtech | Deb Stratman/Pythagoras Films | Simparch | The Heartland Alliance | This is Hell | Intermod Series | Seminary Co-op | Version Fest | Fareed Haque | Gapers Block | BikeCartInfoShop | Ready Subjects | Universtiy of Hip Hop | Feel Tank | In The Weather | Chicago Free-Fi | Microrevolt | Habitat Project | Queer to the Left | Congress Hotel Strike | Little Village Environmental Justice | Blackstone Bicycle Works | Blues In The Schools | Chicago Wilderness | Campaign for Better Transit | Citizens Taking Action | Open-Loop | Starbucks Delocator |
Visible Food | Nomy Lamm | Cake and Polka Blog | Kuumba Lynx | Three Walls | View From the Ground | Young Womens Empowerment Project | WNUR | Free Walking | Public Collectors

Other messes:
Anna Callahan | Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund | Boing Boing | Walking in Place | Autonomedia | Journal of Aesthetics and Protest | IWW | Families Against Mandatory Minimums | End Zero Tolerance | Black Panther Party for Self Defense | Anarchist People of Color | Situationists | Informed Comment on the Middle East | Blog Left | Iraq Body Count | Media Channel | Liberty Movies/Kyle Harris | Bureau D'Etudes | Aljazeera in English | China Study Group | 16 Beaver Group | CLUI | Tactical Museum Tokyo | Arts Initiative Tokyo | Dreamtime Village | Center for the Study of Political Graphics | Nettime | Repohistory | Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection | Fifth Estate | We Make Money Not Art | Tree Hugger | Dynamite | 3rd Floor | California Prison Focus | c cred | Bug Me Not | Altruists | Visual Resistance | World Changing | Center for the Study of the Gift Economy | Copyshop | Rum46 | Swopnetwork | Mute Magazine

Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
'Morse' stop on the Redline
Email: info[at]messhall[dot]org
Tel: 773-465-4033

Keyholders: Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer, (Temporary Services); Marianne Fairbanks (JAM); Erik Newman (www.hhuman.com), Diana Berek (The Chicago Labor and Arts Festival), Claire Pentecost (www.clairepentecost.org), Britt Shawver (Housing Opportunities for Women), Matthias Regan, Amy Partridge, Lora Lode, Nicolas Lampert (Just Seeds), Justin Goh, Sophia Mihic, Aay Preston-Myint and Cassie Smith.

Supporting family of Mess Hall and Keyholders at large:
Ava Bromberg (In the Field) in Los Angeles, Brett Bloom (Temporary Services) in Urbana, Natasha Wheat in Portland, Dan S. Wang in Madison, Mike Wolf (Network of Casual Art) in Central IL and Jane Palmer (JAM).