Get acquainted with Aquí en Chicago, the Chicago History Museum’s forthcoming project and exhibition opening in 2025 inspired by students from Rudy Lozano Leadership Academy (Instituto Justice and Leadership Academy). Join us to celebrate the persistence and presence of Chicago’s Latino/a/x communities through the lens of social justice and learn how you can get involved! More
Join us at CHM for a hands-on session that explores activism for social change. Discover how advocates changed the trajectory of the city through three key events: the 1963 Chicago Public Schools boycott; the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago; and the mayoral election of Harold Washington in 1983. Build your content More
In the middle of the Great Depression, Chicago hosted its second, lesser-known world’s fair, the 1933–34 A Century of Progress International Exposition. Despite the challenges visitors faced outside the fairgrounds, within them they encountered scientific marvels, changing cultural values, and brazen entertainments. While the fair looked to the future with optimism, its various international pavilions More
In 1893, 27 million people paid admission to the World’s Columbian Exposition to marvel at the grand architecture, scientific innovations, and cultural treasures. While names of the “starchitects” like Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan are venerated to this day, who remembers those who built Chicago’s first world’s fair? Those who worked there? And those who More
Presented in partnership with Made By Us, Civic Season is one way we roll out the welcome mat for the future inheritors of the United States, unleashing access to history for informed, inspired civic participation. Anchored by our newest and oldest federal holidays, the Civic Season event series mobilizes a movement to understand our past and shape our More
It took 10 years to build Union Station, and since opening in 1925, with 10 tracks coming into the station from the north and 14 from the south, it has become one of the busiest railway stations in the country. Meet us at Union Station as a CHM History Buff volunteer guide reveals the building’s More
It took 10 years to build Union Station, and since opening in 1925, with 10 tracks coming into the station from the north and 14 from the south, it has become one of the busiest railway stations in the country. Meet us at Union Station as a CHM History Buff volunteer guide reveals the building’s More
Join artist and educator Juarez Hawkins for a lively historical tour of the murals along the Metra underpasses linking Hyde Park Boulevard and Cornell Avenue in Hyde Park, one of the city’s most engaging neighborhoods. Take a close look at public art that tells distinctive stories about Chicago and its history, including Astrid Fuller’s Spirit of Hyde More
Join artist and educator Juarez Hawkins for a lively historical tour of the murals along the Metra underpasses linking Hyde Park Boulevard and Cornell Avenue in Hyde Park, one of the city’s most engaging neighborhoods. Take a close look at public art that tells distinctive stories about Chicago and its history, including Astrid Fuller’s Spirit of Hyde More
Join professional guide and local resident Eduardo Arocho on a walk through Humboldt Park. Located on Chicago’s Northwest Side, the Division Street area (a.k.a. Paseo Boricua), with its stores and restaurants, is home to Chicago’s Puerto Rican community. Humboldt Park has been the symbolic nucleus of Puerto Rican Chicago since the 1960s. Park thoroughfares have More