During the month of February, one of Chicago’s best museums, the Field Museum of Natural History, is free to Illinois residents. It ranks among the best natural history museums in the United States, along with New York’s American Museum of Natural History and Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. After the World’s Columbian Exposition,…
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Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is one of the only surviving buildings from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, also known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, which was in Jackson Park, in the South Side of Chicago. Like most of the other buildings at the World’s Fair, it was built in the Beaux…
Chicago World Fairs and Chicago Museum Free Days
The coldest months of the year in Chicago, January and February, are also when Chicago’s museums have the lowest number of visitors. Because of this, Chicago’s most famous museums usually have a large number of free admission days for Illinois residents. Here is the list of free days offered at Chicago museums in 2020: https://www.chicagoparent.com/learn/museums/free-museum-days-chicago/…
University of Chicago: Regenstein & Mansueto Libraries
The University of Chicago (not to be confused with the University of Illinois in Chicago) was ranked the 6th best National University in the United States in 2019. Founded in 1890, this prestigious university is known for graduating Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winners, as well as employing famous faculty who have made important contributions…
Auditorium Theatre
On December 9, 2019, the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago turned 130 years old. Built in 1889 by architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, the theater was the first home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as well as the early Chicago opera companies. Today, the Theatre still hosts ballets, orchestras, musicians, etc. Additionally, because of its…
National Cambodian Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial
Unfortunately, many genocides occurred during the twentieth century. One of them was the Cambodian Genocide, which took place between 1975 and 1979. Approximately, 2 million people died. In the United States, Chicago is the only place that currently has a memorial to this Genocide (although Long Beach, California is currently working on one). This is…
Rolfing Memorial Library
The Chicago area has many universities, both private and public. Undoubtedly, all of them have interesting stories and materials. Trinity International University is an example of one of them. Located in Bannockburn, Illinois (a small suburb about 30 miles north of Chicago) since 1961, the University can trace its roots back to 1897. During that…
International Museum of Surgical Science
“At Home in Chicago” is a consortium of over 20 mansions in the Chicago area that are open to the public. One of these mansions was built for a wealthy Chicago family in 1917, and faces Lake Shore Drive. Since 1954, this mansion has housed the International Museum of Surgical Science, which is owned by…
DuSable Museum of African American History
After the American Civil War, freed slaves began migrating to the northern United States. This trend continued into the beginning of the twentieth century, as the Ku Klux Klan revived in 1915, and as African Americans in the South sought better job opportunities in the North. The migration of African Americans to the North between…
Chicago Public Libraries
The Chicago Public Library was founded in 1872, the year after the Great Chicago Fire, which destroyed most of the city. After the conflagration, the people of England felt pity for Chicago, so they donated 8,000 books to the city. Chicago, then, established a library, in order to store this generous donation. Today, the Chicago…
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