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The Chicago History Museum has just opened its new exhibit, “Out in Chicago.” This exhibit celebrates and studies the history of one of Chicago’s most neglected groups. Since the formation of the city, LGBT citizens have been coming to this urban hub. This new section of the CHM will explore the stories and lives of a community that has been here longer than any of us.

The direction team has distributed posters and handbills for the CHM throughout the city.

The Chicago History Museum is open seven days a week. Most days feature at least one special event. Please visit chicagohistory.org to plan a visit or CHM outing that would suit your needs. There are “Out in Chicago” events throughout the summer in the museum, neighborhoods and even the lake.

Spring is in the air. It’s the perfect time to be outside, specifically in a trolley, and participate in a History Pub Crawl. The Chicago History Museum is offering Mother Nature’s Nectars tonight. The tour includes stops at places serving organic beer, wine and spirits. If you’re interested in the Out at CHM series, you won’t want to miss, “LGBT History Goes to Court: From Anita Bryant to Prop 8.” Yale historian George Chancey will speak about the history of court cases dealing with marriage, antigay discrimination and antigay demonization.

The direction team has distributed posters and handbills for the CHM throughout the city.

The Chicago History Museum is open seven days a week. Most days feature at least one special event. Please visit chicagohistory.org to plan a visit that would suit your needs.

The Chicago History Museum is a great place to spend the afternoon. Whether you’re a tourist or a lifelong resident of the Windy City, the CHM has something you’ve never seen. In addition to their excellent exhibits, the museum regularly executes special events. Monthly history pub crawls, Sunday documentaries, and multiple types of tours ensure that there’s always something to learn about the city you call home.

In addition to taking out the CHM poster and handbills on our city routes, direction printworks handled the production of the materials.

The Chicago History Museum is open seven days a week. Most days feature at least one special event. Please visit chicagohistory.org to plan a visit that would suit your needs.

This January the Chicago History Museum is celebrating their eighth year of GLBT programming. From now until January 27 new members of the museum are eligible for a free ticket to each of the three special ‘Out’ events. For those that buy family plans two free tickets to each event are provided.

Sexicon: Language and Identity, January 27, will cover the usage of certain powerful words. In addition to this program there will be a cocktail hour. When Romeo Was a Woman, March 10, will be a study of Charlotte Cushman, the nineteenth century’s most famous cross-dressing and woman-loving actress. Beyond Shame: Life and Love in the 1950s, April 14, will cover a decade that wasn’t too kind to those in the GLBT community.

The direction staff has distributed CHM materials to our northside routes, GLBT route and college campuses.

For more information on the Chicago History Museum or any of their upcoming events, please visit chicagohs.org.

A trip to the Chicago History Museum is always a good time. Whether you’re going to see temporary exhibits like “Facing Freedom” or “I Do! Chicago Ties the Knot”, you’re able to learn about important social issues to what to wear on the big day. There are also the permanent exhibits, like “Chicago: Crossroads of America,” which features a classic CTA train. The CHM also programs wonderful events every month. December has Sacred Spaces on December 4, Deck the Pubs! Christmas Caroling on December 9, a “Devil in the White City” bus tour on December 11, holiday themed films every weekend and much more.

The direction team is always happy to print and distribute Chicago History Museum materials throughout the city.

For more information on the Chicago History Museum or any of its upcoming events, please visit chicagohs.org.

There’s a special place in my heart for Chicago television. I’ve watched WGN every morning since I can remember. It started with Bozo, pinning to play the Grand Prize Game, wishing that arrow would land on me. Now it’s getting the weather from Tom Skilling. The superstation is just that, super, and there’s good reason why it’s still around today. All throughout November the Chicago History Museum will be celebrating Chicago television. From talks about groundbreaking children’s programing to tours of the world-renowned PBS station WTTW, these events promise to be both entertaining and educational.

The direction team has been distributing handbills to most of the north side and parts of the west and south side to promote these lectures, tours and more.

Chicago television is being celebrated throughout the month of November at the Chicago History Museum. Please visit chicagohistory.org for more information.

For centuries, wedding fashion followed everyday fashion. Only recently have brides chosen to eschew contemporary formal wear for styles that directly reference the past. Today, hoop skirts, corsets, sinewy fishtails, long trains, and leg-o-mutton sleeves can all be seen on the aisle, but each style echoes decades past. The Chicago History Museum’s vast costume collection includes a stunning array of wedding attire—for brides, grooms, bridesmaids, and more—that reveals 150 years of fashion favored by Chicago couples. I Do! presents forty-five dresses, plus accessories, corsets, and men’s attire.

In addition to distributing materials throughout the city, we’ll also be passing out handbills at Chicago Bridal Expo events. Be sure to check out the exhibit this summer!

I Do! Chicago Ties the Knot opens at the Chicago History Museum on May 22nd.  Please visit www.chicagohs.org for more information.

This month, the Chicago History Museum will proudly present the sixteenth annual Making History Awards at the Palmer House. This event will celebrate the accomplishments of three individuals and one corporation for their historic contributions to the city and nation. By identifying extraordinary awardees each year, the CHM hopes to make history more personal and emphasize how history is a living and breathing part of our lives.

In addition to the Making History Awards, the CHM has some great events happening in the month of May, including the lecture Making Sense of the Census, Project Sunday’s showing of documentary films, and many others.  We’ve been working on our monthly handbill distribution for CHM, delivering materials throughout Chicago. Be sure to grab one and check out what’s happening!

Please visit www.chicagohs.org for more information.

Last month, we were looking forward to welcoming spring here in the city, and, as I write this, they are calling for 70 degree weather. This change in weather also ushers in some very exciting events at the Chicago History Museum this month. you’ll want to catch the Prohibition Seminar to learn how the law and amendment came to be. Plus, no lecture on prohibition would be complete without an additional lecture on Al Capone. Get Capone! is a lecture on the the hunt for the notorious gangster. Rounding out the Prohibition theme is the film Rumrunners, Moonshiners, and Bootleggers screening for Project Sundays.

Please visit www.chicagohs.org fore more information.

Even though we were told by the nation’s most famous weatherman that we can expect six more weeks of winter, things are already beginning to heat up as the month of March begins to give us whiffs of spring here in the Windy City.  Next month, the Chicago History Museum will be offering several special events including a celebration for Chicago’s  173rd birthday, a showing of the film Lioness, about five female support soldiers who saw actual combat in World War II, and OUT at CHM presents Queer Latinos: Art and Change.  Be sure to grab one of our handbills which gives more details on these events!

Please visit www.chicagohs.org for more information.