CHICAGO (WLS) -- Taking place Oct. 5-26 in North Lawndale at James Stone Freedom Square, the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival brings together neighbors, community organizations, designers, artists, students, and faith leaders to co-create sukkahs-structures inspired by Jewish tradition-reimagined as places of belonging, solidarity, and hope.

Rooted in North Lawndale's shared Black and Jewish history and the neighborhood's legacy of resilience, the festival fosters interfaith, multicultural, and multiracial collaboration.

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Together, participants build "third spaces" where diverse communities gather, create, and envision just futures - affirming our humanity and interconnectedness in a time of global division and struggle.

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