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Our annual Members’ Open House provides members and Historical Alliance with exclusive access to the Museum’s exhibitions, collections, and staff. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to go behind the scenes and learn more about the Museum! The North & Clark Café and Museum Store will also be open for members and Historical Alliance to redeem More
Members get to see Back Home: Polish Chicago first! Join us for a tour of the exhibition with CHM chief historian Peter T. Alter and other CHM staff, followed by a reception. Free and exclusive to members.
Enjoy the outdoors with a series of member-only tours of our Jaffee History Trail! Learn more about the trail’s history, as well as its natural and historical elements. Check-in will be in the lobby. Tour leaves from the Museum’s main entrance (on Clark Street). Please monitor your email inboxes on the day of the tour for More
Enjoy the outdoors with a series of member-only tours of our Jaffee History Trail! Learn more about the trail’s history, as well as its natural and historical elements. Check-in will be in the lobby. Tour leaves from the Museum’s main entrance (on Clark Street). Please monitor your email inboxes on the day of the tour for More
Enjoy the outdoors with a series of member-only tours of our Jaffee History Trail! Learn more about the trail’s history, as well as its natural and historical elements. Check-in will be in the lobby. Tour leaves from the Museum’s main entrance (on Clark Street). Please monitor your email inboxes on the day of the tour for More
Enjoy the outdoors with a series of member-only tours of our Jaffee History Trail! Learn more about the trail’s history, as well as its natural and historical elements. Check-in will be in the lobby. Tour leaves from the Museum’s main entrance (on Clark Street). Please monitor your email inboxes on the day of the tour for More
Test your knowledge of Chicago history! CHM director of exhibitions Paul Durica hosts this trivia night featuring a cash bar and a chance to win an exclusive CHM prize package. Free for members; $10 members’ guests. Must be 21+ to purchase alcohol. Limit of 6 people per trivia team.
Be among the first to witness the public debut of a portion of Abner Mikva’s taped interview for We Don’t Want Nobody Nobody Sent (1979), Milton L. Rakove’s classic oral history of Chicago’s Democratic machine. Neither Rakove’s book nor the documentary name the machine official who dismissed Mikva with those iconic words when Mikva tried More
CHM members and the Historical Alliance are invited to join the Chicago History Museum, the Chicago Architecture Center, and the Ismaili Council (Midwestern US Region) for a dialogue that highlights the Aga Khan Award for Architecture with: Nader Tehrani, professor, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union in New York Rebekah Coffman, More
Delve into the history of Chicago’s West Loop with local author and historian Connie Fairbanks in conversation with WTTW host Geoffrey Baer as they discuss Fairbanks’s new book, Chicago’s West Loop: Then and Now (2022). What once was a manufacturing and wholesale warehouse area from the late 1890s to the 1950s, a fashionable place to More