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4835 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 271-8400
OUR STORY
The Robert R. McCormick Boys & Girls Club has been an anchor of hope, fun and stability in the lives of Chicago’s Uptown Community youth since 1958 with the support of the Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust, Senator W. Russell Arrington, W. Clement Stone and area businesses and residents. The Club today serves 2400 members annually and 350 members age 6-18 daily. The facility is one of the largest multi-service Clubs of Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago and features (4) distinct and exceptional programs not offered at any other Club location:
- Peer Pedersen” Technology & Education Center
which helps to enhance technology opportunities for the hundreds
of members served.
- Peter A. Hess Scholarship Program encourages
and enables deserving members the opportunity to continue their
higher educational pursuits.
Crest
Smile Dental Clinic – staffed with dental students
from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Dentistry
through a partnership with the University. The McCormick Club
has established a much needed dental care service for Club members
from the community who would not ordinarily be able to afford
these services.
- Bea Pounian Academy of the Arts Program -named in memory of one of our most dedicated Board Managers. The academy enables Club members the opportunity to receive hands on training from professional instructors in the areas of digital and traditional art. Classes in photography, ceramics, oil painting, sewing, choir and dance, movie making and art history as well as a music recording studio are available. This past year, with financial support from Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Academy implemented a Drama Matters Pilot for youth interested in drama programming. The program exposes Club members to acting techniques and experiences.
CLUB DIRECTOR BIO
George Colone is the Club Director of the Robert R. McCormick Boys & Girls Club. He joined the McCormick Club in February 2006 with more than 15 years of professional experience in the social services and youth development field. Prior to joining the McCormick Club, Mr. Colone served for 3 years as the Club Manager of the Englewood Boys & Girls Club. Additionally, Mr. Colone served as the Club Director of the George M. Eisenberg Boys & Girls Club before the Club closed in 2002.
For 7 years, before joining Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago
in January 2002, Mr. Colone was the Associate Executive Director
of LaSalle Street C.Y.C.L.E. (Community Youth Creative Learning
Experience - a non-for-profit organization serving the Cabrini-Green
and North Town communities in Chicago). He began his youth development
career with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
of Chicago in 1991 where he led programs for youth and teens in
the greater Roseland community for 3 years. Mr. Colone earned
his Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing from North Central College
in Naperville, Illinois. Click here to view a directory of McCormick
Club Board members.
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