Chicago Lights
Individual and Family ServicesIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
Chicago Lights is a Chicago-based nonprofit in the individual and family services sector that works with youth and adults through mentoring, supportive services, academic enrichment, career development, and arts education. Its programs are designed to equip participants with skills to navigate poverty and build fulfilling lives, leveraging relationships as a core asset. The organization operates as the outreach arm of Fourth Presbyterian Church, tracing its origins to a tutoring program started in 1964; it became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 1991 and adopted the Chicago Lights name in 2004. With a small to mid-sized staff, Chicago Lights operates throughout Chicago, Illinois. Since the tutoring program began, the organization has served more than 60,000 people, and in 2019 it received the Thomas A. Demetrio Award of Excellence from the Chicago Bar Association.