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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.

2009 is almost gone, and soon, a new year and new decade will be ushered in. What better way is there to start off than visiting the Chicago History Museum!  For the first month of 2010, CHM will be hosting some very exciting and unique events including Compañeras a film profiling America’s first all-female mariachi band, Vino in the Village which features food, wine, and history, and lastly, a very special celebration of Martin Luther King Jr Day on January 18th.

We are working on prnting and distributing materials for all of CHM’s upcoming events. Keep an eye out for all of the handbills at your local businesses, and take advantage of all the great events next month!

Visit www.chicagohs.org for more informations.