On May 21, 1924, a young boy went missing. The next morning, his father received a phone call informing him that his son had been beaten to death. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb’s gruesome, senseless act stained Chicago’s history and still leaves many baffled. Tour the Kenwood neighborhood with CHM director of exhibitions Paul Durica, More
The Great Migration transformed Chicago and other northern cities between 1916 and 1970. More than 500,000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South settled in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. Author and historian Bernard Turner leads this walking tour that highlights Chicago’s most influential African Americans and their contributions to the city. Bronzeville More
The Great Migration transformed Chicago and other northern cities between 1916 and 1970. More than 500,000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South settled in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. Author and historian Bernard Turner leads this walking tour that highlights Chicago’s most influential African Americans and their contributions to the city. Bronzeville More
The Great Migration transformed Chicago and other northern cities between 1916 and 1970. More than 500,000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South settled in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. Author and historian Bernard Turner leads this walking tour that highlights Chicago’s most influential African Americans and their contributions to the city. More
The Great Migration transformed Chicago and other northern cities between 1916 and 1970. More than 500,000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South settled in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. Author and historian Bernard Turner leads this walking tour that highlights Chicago’s most influential African Americans and their contributions to the city. More
Join a CHM History Buff volunteer guide and whisk away to a time when Chicago’s rich and famous caroused on the coast. “Gold Coast” refers to a stretch of expensive lakefront property occupied by the city’s wealthiest residents. Before the opening of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (now DuSable Bridge) in 1920, it was isolated from More
Join a CHM History Buff volunteer guide and whisk away to a time when Chicago’s rich and famous caroused on the coast. “Gold Coast” refers to a stretch of expensive lakefront property occupied by the city’s wealthiest residents. Before the opening of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (now DuSable Bridge) in 1920, it was isolated from More
Join a CHM History Buff volunteer guide and whisk away to a time when Chicago’s rich and famous caroused on the coast. “Gold Coast” refers to a stretch of expensive lakefront property occupied by the city’s wealthiest residents. Before the opening of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (now DuSable Bridge) in 1920, it was isolated from More
Join a CHM History Buff volunteer guide and whisk away to a time when Chicago’s rich and famous caroused on the coast. “Gold Coast” refers to a stretch of expensive lakefront property occupied by the city’s wealthiest residents. Before the opening of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (now DuSable Bridge) in 1920, it was isolated from More
Join a CHM History Buff volunteer guide and whisk away to a time when Chicago’s rich and famous caroused on the coast. “Gold Coast” refers to a stretch of expensive lakefront property occupied by the city’s wealthiest residents. Before the opening of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (now DuSable Bridge) in 1920, it was isolated from More