Dimmed lights, silence, and the gentleness in the atmosphere is nothing but a mood for a Sunday morning. Cup of coffee in hand or not,…
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In response to skyrocketing statistics of gun deaths and injuries, the “American Epidemic: Guns in the United States” exhibition encourages attendees to slow down and…
When a California couple and owners of Super78 Media Studios purchased the birth home of Walt Disney on Chicago’s Northwest Side in June 2013, it…
For three weeks in July, the Museum is proud to welcome some of Chicago’s most talented magicians to the Rubloff Auditorium. You won’t believe your…
WHAT: The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago opens “I Define Myself: Unapologetic and Unafraid” a collaborative portrait project between the…
CLICK FOR SLIDESHOW FROM MUSEUM Various visitors to Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art offered their perspectives on the institution’s latest exhibit This Will Have Been:…
The first housing project in Chicago, the Jane Addams Homes, opened in 1938 as part of the Roosevelt administration’s Public Works Administration Act, a program aimed at creating jobs and reviving the economy in response to the Great Depression. Plans for a museum have been in motion since December of 2006 when the CHA’s Central Advisory Council first proposed the museum and set a goal to open the museum's doors by 2012. But the plan’s momentum has been drawn almost to a halt by community disapproval and a lack of funding, according to Chris Provenzano, a spokesman for the University Village Association.
Like many Chicagoans, Kevin Byrne runs every morning. However, he does it throughout the 14-acre Museum of Science and Industry to scout out different places…