News and Updates

Live Big: Celebrating Sisterhood

To ring in International Women’s Day, we celebrated our 5th Annual Live BIG event, bringing together female matches and Chicagoland professionals at the Woman's Athletic Club - the first athletic club for women in America.

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The Mark You Made in 2018

We’ve reached many milestones over the past year, with a record number of children matched and 100% of our high school seniors graduating. Read our 2018 wrap up and learn more about how we are making meaningful change here. Read More

Meet One of Our Newest Matches

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago is working to take 80 kids off the waitlist before the end of the year. Read below for one of our most recent match stories.

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New Volunteer Openings

Experience one-to-one mentoring and meet other Bigs! We have spots open in both our Tuesday and Wednesday Site Based Programs - every other week from 6:30-8pm on the north side of Chicago.

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VIDEO: Experience Dreaming Out Loud

What does it mean to be young in Chicago? What does it mean to explore freely without fear? To learn to trust and dream, how to fall, a net to fail and someone to help you get back up. See what it’s like.

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