Chicago History Museum Opening Hours: Open on Sun,12:00am-5:00pm;Open on Mon,Wed-Sat,9:30am-4:30pm;Open on Tue,9:30am-9:00pm Ticket Price: 16 USD Recommended Length of Stay: 1-2 Hours Location: 1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614, USA ...
The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) has announced the art collective Floating Museum as the leading artistic team of CAB’s fifth edition, opening in September 2023. For this edition, titled “This is a Rehearsal”, the Biennial explores environmental, political, and economic issues present in...
The West End Woman’s Club, via Chicago History Museum Rendering of West End Club courtesy of ZSD Corp. A permit was issued by the City of Chicago to make the office-to-residential conversion to the building, located on the northeast corner of Ashland Avenue and Monroe Street, on May 15...
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian(2009) courtesy of: Chicago Daily Times and Chicago Daily News (as Chicago Sun-Times LLC) $150MM $54MM $177MM $413MM Obama: Hope & History(2009) (Video)-Production company Show more
Art Institute of Chicago– Named the best museum in the world by TripAdvisor in 2015, the Art Institute's collection contains about 300,000 masterpieces, with temporary exhibitions opening several times throughout the year. Don’t miss iconic works such asThe Bedroomby Vincent van Gogh,A Sunday...
Our guide, Dash was incredibly knowledgeable about the history or Chicago and the stunning architecture in the loop. He was very accommodating to our needs to checked in multiple times to see how we were going with pace and temperature. We definitely felt like the tour was catered specifical...
Shedd Aquarium (1930), and the Field Museum of Natural History (1893). Several blocks farther north, the Auditorium Theatre (1889) is the site of touring plays, popular concerts, and visiting orchestras and is the home of the Joffrey Ballet, which moved from New York City to Chicago in ...
[Left:Women at work in the Crane Chicago Works, 1942.Right:Crane workers striking outside the plant on Kedzie Avenue, 1945.Chicago History Museum – Hedrich-Blessing and Sun-Times Collections] V. Bathrooms & Blast Furnaces In the 1920s, the catalogs of the Crane Company began to more direct...
“Once, when the Commander was selling automobiles, he drove a new car straight up the steps of a Grant Park statue as a publicity stunt,”legendarySun Timescolumnist Irv Kupcinet wrote in his memoirKup’s Chicago.“Another time, he publicized his short-wave radios by traveling north into th...
14. Chicago History Museum:For families interested in learning more about Chicago’s rich history, theChicago History Museumat1601 N Clark Stoffers a variety of interactive exhibits that explore the city’s past. From the Great Chicago Fire to the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, this mu...