The museum carries out its multifaceted mission to celebrate and cultivate the arts, all while keeping the Mexican-American community of Pilsen at its center.

1927: The Stevens Hotel — then the largest hotel in the world — opened on Michigan Avenue. The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete ...

During the 1970's, it's just one of the many stories told by the Chicago History Museum's exhibit it in Chicago ... of the exhibition will feature a digital scrapbook for Chicagoans can share ...

A once-decrepit library on a bluff at the edge of downtown Waukegan finally came back to life last week, six decades after ...

Preparations are underway to open Rosemont’s new history museum — perhaps ... week and next with village officials and a Chicago-based museum design and construction firm tasked with creating ...

Rev. Amos Brown said he was notified that two artifacts he loaned to the National Museum of African American History and ...

The National Public Housing Museum, which opened this month in Chicago, is fighting a heroic battle against misinformation, amnesia and bad history ... in the lobby, images flash by, the highs ...

Above the stage was inscribed “Act Well Your Part, There All the Honor Lies,” from which a new exhibit at the Hull-House Museum takes its name. Earl Pierce Photo/Courtesy of University of ...

Several artifacts are being removed from the National Museum of ... to know with the Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. "It's a shame that fear of black people finding out their history has caused ...