Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined youth and members of the community at a One Summer Chicago youth employment site to celebrate another successful year of the program, which employed more than 30,000 youth around the city with job and internship opportunities this summer. Each year, summer employment opportunities—ranging from infrastructure jobs and camp counselors, urban agriculture and outdoor forestry projects to bike repair and office and clerical work—grow and diversify to meet a strong demand by youth for these opportunities. The ability to continuously grow the program year over year is attributed to the strength of the public-private partnerships each year. The Mayor’s Infrastructure Team, a subset of One Summer Chicago supported by City of Chicago departments, employed nearly 2,000 youth this summer. Together, these youth made a collective impact on their communities through the following accomplishments:
- painted 5 murals;
- painted 327 viaducts;
- mulched 3,528 trees;
- collected 9,101 debris filled bags;
- cleaned 786 mains, 793 lots and 6,470 parkways.
