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Creating Opportunity for Chicagos Southside Youth The Blue Gargoyle serves as a hub for community services in order to provide positive opportunities for youth and families on the Southside of Chicago. Through partnerships and programs in arts education and workforce development we provide youth and families the opportunity to become selfsustaining in a rapidly changing world. PROGRAMS Recreation Arts Music Engineering Project Heart Food Years of Impact Community Neighborhoods Kids served each year Mission Changing Lives Resurrecting History Blue Gargoyle Youth Services started in 1968 at University Church Chicago from a group of divinity students responding to the lack of fellowship and community feeling in the campus area. Soon a simple coffeehouse expanded into counseling services an adult literacy program and an arts incubator for jazz house and hiphop among many other impactful programs.