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Justice Hotel at 6018|North
Justice Hotel at 6018North is a 5-room hotel created in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial from September 18, 2019 to January 5, 2020.
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We invite you to “check in” to justice. Developed with a collective of ALAANA concierge-curators, the communal hotel’s programming (included in the stay) consists of conversational dinners, performances, and healing services.
Check out our calendar of weekly curated events.
Wednesdays at 7pm - Moving images
Thursdays and Fridays at 7pm - Conversational dinners
Saturdays at 7pm - Sound celebrations
Sundays at 12pm - Sanctuary Sundays
Justice Hotel at 6018North is an experiment. Employing a co-op model of ownership, we are experimenting with living and working together in ways that benefit all. Your experience helps inform our cooperative enterprise in shaping justice.
Justice Hotel at 6018North is part of an ongoing, long term project that has developed through a grant from the Joyce Foundation to iterate how artists can be agents of social change.
This iteration of Justice Hotel at 6018North invites you into the very messy, difficult, layered questions surrounding collaboration, hospitality, and justice. While 6018North has always connected artists and audiences through unique events, everything we have done has been free. Justice Hotel at 6018North charges guests to participate in justice. Running and programming the hotel as a cooperative enterprise, our collective of concierges, neighbors, and artists share in the revenue. Together we ask how art can best shape and generate both artistic value and monetary value to increase value for its neighborhood’s inhabitants. Your experience will help inform the long term goal of developing a hotel working with community groups, individuals, and artist/curators on Chicago’s South side.
The larger project - Justice Hotel and Just Desserts - has been developed together with artist and architect Amanda Williams and Maya-Camille Broussard to raise questions about value, structural forces such as redlining and disinvestment and how justice can be served through radical hospitality. The project has taken many forms from artists providing healing services at Expo Chicago, Good Sense Dinner by Maya-Camille Broussard, to teens discussing justice in limos. This Summer, our Youth Employees delved into justice to create a podcast to discuss the odd pairing of justice and hospitality. They interviewed Heather Miller, Director of the American Indian Center, who gave Justice Hotel a Land Acknowledgement.
Land Acknowledgment: Chicago is the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: The Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi Nations. Many other Tribes like the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox also called this area home. Located at the intersection of several great waterways, the land naturally became a site of travel and healing for many Tribes. American Indians continue to call this area home and now Chicago is home to the sixth largest Urban American Indian community that still practices their heritage, traditions and care for the land and waterways. Today, Chicago continues to be a place that calls many people from diverse backgrounds to live and gather here. Despite the many changes the city has experienced, both our American Indian and Justice Hotel community see the importance of the land and this place that has always been a city home to many diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Justice Hotel and Just Desserts draws from the threat of eminent domain in the Englewood neighborhood and the Supreme Court’s Kelo vs. City of New London decision to allow city governments to take private land if it believes doing so will generate greater tax revenues or other economic benefits when the land is developed by a new owner. The idea for the hotel and café was sparked by a libertarian’s comical response to the Supreme Court case. Justice Hotel is then a reinterpretation in its manifestation and building of a space to redesign justice in the aftermath of Chicago’s landscape being “designed” via erasure, systemic neglect, racism, redlining, and an imbalance of resources. Instead of gentrifying, we reposition the community as agents in a process that so often moves them out. This phase - Justice Hotel at 6018North is developing the blueprints to construct an artist and curator run hotel as a social justice endeavor that through its spatial, material, and localized conditions empowers its workers and its community. We ask: how can we embody a new set of financial parameters that express ownership, management, and maintenance as an artistic and a cooperative endeavor?
Past iterations of Justice Hotel
Since Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome typifies the 60s generation of sharing, this phase asks: What does a cooperative look like? To answer this question, in 2018 6018North’s Summer Youth Employees (prototypes of future youth workers of the hotel) helped build Amanda Williams’s prototype for Sanctuary at Expo Chicago 2019.
Supporters
Justice Hotel and Just Desserts has received vital ideation support from The Joyce Foundation, event sponsorship from The Chicago Community Trust, and professional development assistance from The Driehaus Foundation. The first iteration of Justice Hotel – Sanctuary – was presented at Expo Chicago 2018 with 3Arts.
about the neighborhood
Edgewater is a lakefront community seven miles from downtown on the North side of Chicago. The beach is one block away. Located in a uniquely diverse neighborhood, there is a wide range of ethnic cuisines within walking distance. Best coffee in Chicago – Metropolis coffee shop – is one block away, as is Indie Cafe, Income Tax restaurant, and the historical Moody's Pub. Minutes from train and buses, we are located between the Thorndale and Granville Red Line stops and the 147 Express bus stopes directly at Water Tower on Michigan Ave.