THE JUNGLE

Sustaining Mutual Aid After Midway Blitz
- May 29 @ 6:00 PM
- until 8:00 PM
- Pilsen Community Books
- 1531 W. 18th St, Chicago
ICE is less visible in Chicago, but the threats to the safety and livelihoods of immigrant communities haven’t gone away—how are mutual aid organizations sustaining their efforts? Meet City Bureau at Pilsen Community Books for a #PublicNewsroom with partners Latino Union of Chicago and PUÑO to find out! Together, we’ll take a closer look at how community members have stepped up to help sustain one another, how rapid response has turned into a longer term action, and how these models serve us in teaching how we can work together to advocate for each other. Free... Read More

Eatt, BKPT, Repent, Sour House @ Not Not
- May 29 @ 7:00 PM
- Not Not
- email anyonecanbethebug@riseup.net
$10-15 at door, 7pm doors, 8pm music

Heatwave Magazine Launch
- May 30 @ 4:00 PM
- until 6:00 PM
- Pilsen Community. Books
- 1531 W 18th St
Join us for a panel discussion featuring editors and writers from the new radical magazine Heatwave. The editors will provide an introduction to the project and share information on coming issues currently in the works. The panel will additionally feature three contributors to Heatwave issue 2.... Read More

Chicago Abortion Fund 2026 Fund-A-Thon Celebration
- May 31 @ 12:30 PM
- until 3:00 PM
- Haymarket House
- 800 W Buena Avenue
Celebrate the close of Fund-A-Thon season with CAF! Join us for a backyard celebration in the Buena Park neighborhood of Chicago on 5/31 starting at 12:30PM. We will have food & beverages, music, screen printing, and more! Let’s celebrate the hard work of all of our fundraisers and teams, who have been mobilizing their communities to directly fund abortions & travel. It’s... Read More

Art for Gaza Fundraiser
- May 31 @ 3:00 PM
- until 8:00 PM
- Pilsen Community Books
- 1531 W. 18th St, Chicago
We invite you to join us for Art for Gaza, a community art sale and fundraiser featuring ceramics, prints, zines, textiles, and more by local artists, plus live music. All proceeds will go directly to a family in Gaza to help pay for their food, water, and other essential needs, as well as to support their son Ibrahim in continuing his medical studies.... Read More

Organizing Workshop
- June 2 @ 7:00 PM
- until 8:30 PM
- Pilsen Community Books
- 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Join Chicago Union of Tenants West Side Branch for an organizing workshop, where attendees will learn the basic skills and methods involved in bringing neighbors together to fight back against their landlord's neglect, harassment, and displacement.

Radical Writers' Café
- June 3 @ 6:30 PM
- until 8:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Somatic Healing Dance
- June 5 @ 5:00 PM
- until 8:00 PM
- Pilson Arts & Community House - PACH 21
- 2141 W 21st St 2nd Floor
Descripción en español abajo**** If you are an organizer, radical artist, or your system is just fried by injustice and oppression, please join us for another somatic healing dance! An anti-racist, pro-Palestine, pro-migrant, pro-trans space for free movement and release. Schedule: 5:00 - 5:30 Warm up movement led by Nika 5:40 - 6:00 Opening Circle 6:00 - 7:30 DJ'ed movement space 7:30 - 7:45 Closing circle Español ***** Si eres activista, artista radical, o simplemente tu sistema está frito por injusticia y opresión, acompáñanos para otra sesión de danza para sanación emocional! Un espacio anti-racista, pro-Palestina, pro-migrante, pro-trans para movimiento libre y catarsis. Horario: 5:00... Read More

Fiber Night @PO Box Collective
- June 5 @ 6:00 PM
- until 8:00 PM
- PO Box Collective
- 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626
Come make stuff in a respectful community. Bring your project, snacks, ideas, kindly disposition. Introverts welcome. The first Friday & third Monday of every month. Masks required for all attendees including presenter The PO Box Collective is accessible by ramp with an accessible bathroom and we have 2 air purifiers running.

Femmes and Thems Bike Ride
- June 6 @ 11:00 AM
- Loaves and Witches
- 6034 n Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660
A safe space for women, trans, femme, and non-binary Chicagoans to ride bikes together.

Benefit for Punks Against Apartheid and Animal Rights Collective
- June 6 @ 6:00 PM
- la casa del migrante 3
- 3016 w fulton st, chicago, il
Crust Grind Chicago and Breaking the Borders. A benefit for the PAA biweekly highlight family and Animal rights collective Chicago. Side to side with your friends to some dbeats, blast beats, punk and omfug. Contracharge, Flying Heads, Tongan “fuckin” Death... Read More

"Do Not Attempt to Communicate with the Inmates Through the Fence"
- June 8 @ 7:00 PM
- until 9:00 PM
- Pilson Community Books
- 1531 W. 18th St.
Come watch two surreal compilations of media footage of revolts that have occurred inside and outside of the St. Louis jails over the course of 10 years.

Socialism or Barbarism: An Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg
- June 9 @ 6:30 PM
- until 9:30 PM
- Haymarket House
- 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL
Join us for a four-week intensive seminar on the thought of Rosa Luxemburg led by Audrey Nicolaides. This is a four-week course, meeting once-weekly between June 9 and June 30 on Tuesday evenings, 6:30pm – 9:30pm. Students are expected to participate in all four sessions.... Read More

Again, Harder: Alice Stoehr with Sloane Murphy
- June 10 @ 6:30 PM
- until 8:00 PM
- Skunk Cabbage Books
- 2826 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Join us to celebrate the release of Alice Stoehr's Again, Harder with Alice in conversation with Sloane Murphy. Again, Harder, from Feminist Press, gathers the uncompromising short fiction of Alice Stoehr, which investigates the inner lives, evolving relationships, and often violent marginalization of a community of trans women in a large Midwestern town.... Read More

Fiber Night @PO Box Collective
- June 15 @ 6:00 PM
- until 8:00 PM
- PO Box Collective
- 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626
Come make stuff in a respectful community. Bring your project, snacks, ideas, kindly disposition. Introverts welcome. The first Friday & third Monday of every month. Masks required for all attendees including presenter The PO Box Collective is accessible by ramp with an accessible bathroom and we have 2 air purifiers running.

Socialism or Barbarism: An Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg
- June 16 @ 6:30 PM
- until 9:30 PM
- Haymarket House
- 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL
Join us for a four-week intensive seminar on the thought of Rosa Luxemburg led by Audrey Nicolaides. This is a four-week course, meeting once-weekly between June 9 and June 30 on Tuesday evenings, 6:30pm – 9:30pm. Students are expected to participate in all four sessions.... Read More

PO Box Poetry Series Reading, Writing Workshop & Potluck
- June 18 @ 6:30 PM
- until 9:30 PM
- PO Box Collective
- 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626
The PO Box Poetry Series was started in the spring of 2022. We bring poets local to the neighborhood together with poets from across Chicago and beyond to form a stronger community through poetry. The readings and writing workshops are free & open to the public. 6:30pm... Read More

Socialism or Barbarism: An Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg
- June 23 @ 6:30 PM
- until 9:30 PM
- Haymarket House
- 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL
Join us for a four-week intensive seminar on the thought of Rosa Luxemburg led by Audrey Nicolaides. This is a four-week course, meeting once-weekly between June 9 and June 30 on Tuesday evenings, 6:30pm – 9:30pm. Students are expected to participate in all four sessions.... Read More

Radical Book Buzz with Library Freedom Project and Library Futures
- June 26 @ 6:30 PM
- until 9:00 PM
- Pilsen Community Books
- 1531 W. 18th St, Chicago
Friday June 26th, 2026 @ 6:30PM - 9:00PM Library workers, join us for an evening with radical publishers! We'll hear about new releases, chat about libraries and the publishing ecosystem, and party together! Featuring Haymarket, Seven Stories, Akashic, The New Press, One Signal, Scribe, Feminist Press and others.... Read More

Socialism or Barbarism: An Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg
- June 30 @ 6:30 PM
- until 9:30 PM
- Haymarket House
- 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL
Join us for a four-week intensive seminar on the thought of Rosa Luxemburg led by Audrey Nicolaides. This is a four-week course, meeting once-weekly between June 9 and June 30 on Tuesday evenings, 6:30pm – 9:30pm. Students are expected to participate in all four sessions.... Read More

Radical Writers' Café
- July 1 @ 6:30 PM
- until 8:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

SUMMERTIME MADNESS (queer skate sesh)
- July 5 @ 6:00 PM
- until 11:00 PM
- Logan Boulevard Skate Park
- W Logan Blvd & N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60647
Free event - NA Bev. All Ages - Queer. DONATIONS 100% TO BANDS/ARTIST

Radical Writers' Café
- August 5 @ 6:30 PM
- until 8:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Radical Writers' Café
- September 2 @ 6:30 PM
- until 8:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Radical Writers' Café
- October 7 @ 6:30 PM
- until September 30 @ 8:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Radical Writers' Café
- November 4 @ 5:30 PM
- until 7:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Radical Writers' Café
- December 2 @ 5:30 PM
- until 7:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Radical Writers' Café
- January 6 2027 @ 5:30 PM
- until 7:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Radical Writers' Café
- February 3 2027 @ 5:30 PM
- until 7:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Radical Writers' Café
- March 3 2027 @ 5:30 PM
- until 7:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Radical Writers' Café
- April 7 2027 @ 6:30 PM
- until March 31 @ 8:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

Radical Writers' Café
- May 5 2027 @ 6:30 PM
- until 8:30 PM
- Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
- 4728 N Kedzie
Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.