Chicago Public Media serves the public interest by producing and delivering diverse, compelling content of multiple viewpoints and expression. We act as the circuit that connects residents of our region to one another, to the nation, and to the world in a relevant and evocative way.  We are a regional resource fostering full and active citizenship by creating connections and remaining present and involved broadly in community life. 

CPM will serve as a neutral and imperative meeting place for everyone, a polycultural arena in which difference is honored and in which information and culture are communicated with vitality through authentic voices speaking from human perspectives and daily experience.

We are national leaders in the use of current and emerging delivery systems and platforms to prompt rational discourse and compelling discovery among our publics.  We use multiple avenues of distribution technologies to insure availability of our services to all potential users in our region.  Likewise we embrace the concept of giving access to our institution to our publics by listening, learning, and co-constructing our strategies and content with them.