Winner will receive a four week Swing 101 session - intro to swing class for 2 from Traffic Jam!

Swing 101 is our Intro to Swing class, and it's great for beginners! We will take you through a four week course that will move you from two left feet to dancing on the social floor! Swing dancing is an active physical dance that is fun and upbeat. It's the perfect activity to get fit, meet new people, and learn a new skill!

Started in 2016 with an idea over brunch, Traffic Jam! Swing is a Chicago nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the Chicago Swing Dance and Lindy Hop scene. Our mission is to promote the education, history, and culture of swing dance in Chicago by organizing events including regularly occurring dances, leveled classes, and weekend intensive workshops.

We wanted to help grow the scene further and ultimately sought to create a new, vintage jazz-focused weekend workshop in the city, which has been notoriously difficult given the astronomical costs of local venues. Knowing what we wanted to do, we started Traffic Jam! (the dance) to start to raise funds that would be used to put on the larger workshop. We had to run the dance for 2 full years just to pay for the first Second City Swingout, and it was absolutely worth it. We couldn't be prouder to bring a large, regional (and somewhat national) event to the city of Chicago, and we hope to continue running both Traffic Jam! and Second City Swingout well into the future.

Now we’ve grown enough to host a number of classes each month called Traffic Jam! Sessions which are 4-week long progressive classes where students are able to learn new skills, meet new people, and help grow and foster the future of the Chicago Lindy Hop scene.