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Free to visit and located in the last surviving building of the former Jane Addams Homes, the new Chicago museum is filled ...
It’s a trip back in time that highlights the struggles and resilience of people who have lived in public housing.
A story has the power to make the floor of a Field Museum exhibition hall feel like the center of the Arab world.
A one-of-a-kind Chicago museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. The National Public Housing ...
Located in a preserved 1930s development in Chicago's West Side, the museum includes three recreated apartments representing ...
The museum explores the history of public housing through a wealth of exhibitions, installations and recreated apartments. It opens April 4 inside the remaining building of the former Jane Addams ...
A former federal housing project in Chicago recently received a $17.5 million renovation to ensure preservation of residents’ ...
The National Public Housing Museum is now open in Chicago. Installations, exhibits and stories about public housing's ...
The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African American .
Living history: The National Public Housing Museum, opening April 4 ... to raise money and acquire its permanent home from the Chicago Housing Authority. Its permanent location now focuses ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. A former federal ...
(AP Photo/Erin Hooley) Kitchen items are part of the Turovitz Family Apartment exhibit at the National Public Housing Museum, Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley ...