A little encouragement for your feed from one of our Girls Opportunity Alliance girls, Caytlen from Ladies of Virtue, just in time for World Mental Health Day.

It’s always a blast to be in the garden at the Obama Presidential Center! This week, Michelle Obama met up with a group of Chicago students from After School Matters with Urban Growers Collective and Cliff Rome to talk about gardening, sustainability, and food preservation. Take a look!

Mike Ditka’s 1985 Bears forever changed the laws of football, thrilled all of us who live in Chicago and riveted the country. That’s the legacy we’re reflecting on today.

GARDEN FACT FRIDAY: From the bee waggle dance to native mason bee nesting, get the buzz about ecosystem health with our Garden Gatherings series at the Obama Presidential Center, in partnership with Urban Growers Collective.

Five MVPs. And a hometown shout-out from President Obama. Congratulations to A’ja Wilson on making history as the WNBA’s first five-time MVP. We’re proud of you, too.

There’s nothing like a fall evening at the Obama Presidential Center.

Come inside the first Girls Opportunity Alliance Chicago Network Convening at the Obama Presidential Center. In The Arrival, the first episode of our new four-part series, we’re taking you behind the scenes of the Girls Opportunity Alliance Chicago Network Convening.

On this World Architecture Day, take a minute to take in our campus: not a collection of standalone buildings, but a place where design, nature and community life are inseparable.

Fall calls for a little more time around the table. Starting October 5, Tafari’s Kitchen is open 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Mondays. More time for good food. More time together.

Before they were President and Mrs. Obama, they were Barack and Michelle… and this is a look at their love story. Happy Anniversary!

GARDEN FACT FRIDAY: Learn how to harness the power of the sun to craft your own aromatherapy oils with tips from our six-part Garden Gatherings series at the Obama Presidential Center, hosted in partnership with Urban Growers Collective.

Today, we're spotlighting award-winning author Dr. Ebony Joy Wilkins, who read "Zora, the Story Keeper" to South Side families at the Obama Presidential Center's Chicago Public Library during Grand Opening weekend, leaving her inspired to write the next story.

The Obama Foundation and US National Archives (NARA) have a new, joint effort to give the public even greater access and understanding of the work of President Obama’s administration.

The South Side is headed to October! ⚾️🙌🏾 Big congratulations to the White Sox on making the playoffs. P44’s been riding with the Sox for a long time, and clearly Southpaw has been keeping a close eye on him. Thanks for looking out, Southpaw. 👀🖤🤍

Today marks 100 days since the Obama Presidential Center opened to the public! So we’ve got a by-the-numbers look at all the ways people from around the world, across the country and down the block have made this campus their own!

At a 2019 Obama Leaders convening, a K-pop exec shared her dream in a room full of civic leaders. A UN staffer heard her. They co-founded 1VERSE—the first K-pop group born from a U.S. president’s legacy work, featuring two North Korean defectors.