January 2024 Newsletter
Chicago Magazine: “Accelerate Hard as You Can” For a Blues Brothers stunt driver, the thrill of the chase was only part of the fun
"It was the late spring of 1979, and I’d recently left my job selling high-line cars at Loeber Motors on Clark Street, a couple...
Chicago YIMBY: Lost Legends #10: The Masonic Temple Building In The Loop
"In this edition of the “Lost Legends” series, we delve into the history of The Loop‘s Masonic Temple Building, which stood tall from 1892...
Richard H. Driehaus Museum Presents “Sif Itona Westerberg: Twin Flame, Double Ruin”
Richard H. Driehaus Museum Presents
"Sif Itona Westerberg: Twin Flame, Double Ruin"
February 16 to April 14"Sif Itona Westerberg: Twin Flame, Double Ruin is the first...
Pritzker Military Museum & Library presents The War of 1812: Countering Peril on the High Seas and at Home October 19, 2023...
The War of 1812: Countering Peril on the High Seas and at Home exhibit chronicles the conflict from an American perspective primarily through illustrations...
Hyde Park Historical Society Presents William Walker’s “Childhood is Without Prejudice” February 18, 2024
Join the Hyde Park Historical Society on Sunday, February 18th from 1-4pm for the February Open House. In honor of Black History Month, visitors...
Annual Clarence Darrow Bridge Flower-Tossing Ceremony March 13, 2024
"The annual event – now a tradition that stretches more than six decades – will be held on Wednesday, March 13, at 10 a.m....
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center presents “I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli Through April 14, 2024
"More than a place to get a meal, the Jewish deli is a community forged in food. 'I’ll Have What She’s Having': The Jewish...
Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our Architectural Treasures By Richard Cahan and Michael Williams
"'In this arresting collection, historians Cahan and Williams spotlight architectural jewels of America’s yesteryear in photographs taken between 1933 and the present by the...
An American Palace: Chicago’s Samuel M. Nickerson House by David Bagnall
"An American Palace: Chicago’s Samuel M. Nickerson House, explores the rich and varied history of one of Chicago’s grandest Gilded Age residences. Commissioned by...
Rosenwald: Toward a More Perfect Union Film Trailer
“The extraordinary story of a forgotten philanthropist, a Jewish son of immigrants from Chicago who became a champion for black education with in the...