On July 25, 2023, a day that would have been Emmett Till’s 82nd birthday, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed a proclamation designating the establishment of a noncontiguous national monument to honor the racially motivated murder of a Black child for whistling at a white woman. With locations in Mississippi and Illinois, the monument will More

To mark Labor Day 2023, CHM editor Heidi Samuelson writes about Polish-born John Kikulski, a Chicago labor leader in the early twentieth century. You can see more about Kikulski in our exhibition Back Home: Polish Chicago. Labor Party candidates palm card, Chicago, 1919; CHM, ICHi-182716-001 John Kikulski was born in the village of Okinin in More

The Great Migration transformed Chicago and other northern cities between 1916 and 1970. More than 500,000 of the approximately 7 million African Americans who left the South settled in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. Author and historian Bernard Turner leads this walking tour that highlights Chicago’s most influential African Americans and their contributions to the city. Bronzeville More

Join a CHM History Buff volunteer guide and whisk away to a time when Chicago’s rich and famous caroused on the coast.  “Gold Coast” refers to a stretch of expensive lakefront property occupied by the city’s wealthiest residents. Before the opening of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (now DuSable Bridge) in 1920, it was isolated from More

Join a CHM History Buff volunteer guide and whisk away to a time when Chicago’s rich and famous caroused on the coast.  “Gold Coast” refers to a stretch of expensive lakefront property occupied by the city’s wealthiest residents. Before the opening of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (now DuSable Bridge) in 1920, it was isolated from More