Read-A-Palooza 2024 Keep Reading Celebration

Join the SitStayRead Community for our Keep Reading Celebration, the final event celebrating the culmination of our first annual month-long reading challenge and peer-to-peer fundraiser to support our work across Chicago this school year!

All participants are invited to join us from 10 am to noon at Fred Anderson Park and Dog Park in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood to enjoy breakfast refreshments, prizes, book and dog item giveaways, live entertainment and booths with literacy games.

More about Read-A-Palooza 2024

Get LIT while raising funds to support our return to Chicago Public Schools for the first time in over four years, new programming with the Chicago Public Libraries as part of their Jump Into Reading initiative, and the expansion of our bilingual programming with all our school and community partners.

Registration for individuals and teams, including corporate sponsor teams on the Read-A-Palooza 2024 platform is now open.

Between September 9 and October 9, 2024 readers will track their reading-for-pleasure 15 minutes or more each day, or use another metric to track progress. 

Participants are encouraged to invite their networks to support their “read-a-thon” efforts by donating to SitStayRead through personalized peer-to-peer fundraising pages on the Read-A-Palooza 2024 platform.

Non-fundraising registration allows our school partners and students to participate!