Our January Open Haus will be the best game night in town! Did you know that Germans invented the jigsaw puzzle and board games? Bring your friends and your competitive […]
This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. Free and open to all. Advance registration required. In-Person Registration Livestream Registration Join us as historian Kaya […]
This Friday, January 12, 2023, at 7 PM the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Chicago, presents: "The Road to Global Conquest: Stalinist Expansionism and the Baltic Region, 1917-1953" A lecture […]
Through the years, the land and water around Chicago have been radically altered. In 1900, the river was reversed. Meanwhile, Michigan Avenue by Grant Park used to be lakefront property! […]
Join us for a roundtable conversation exploring ideas for a renewed LaSalle Street corridor, which currently finds itself at a crossroads. How does an austere financial district transform into a […]
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, in association with MGM Television, SIPUR, Toluca Pictures, Alice Communications, and Menemsha Films, will host the North American premiere of The Devil’s Confession: The Lost […]
Eleven artists with ties to North and South of the Mason-Dixon Line respond to just how much Black life has always been in transit. The Great Migration was one […]
This exhibit discusses the exploitation of Indigenous land and how imposed borders of nation-states have erased the natural land borders used by Indigenous peoples. Nine Sami artists and three Indigenous […]
South Asia Institute brings together art and poetry by South Asian women to create a space for alternative narratives of femininity and identity.
Please join us for our second conversation on Chicago craft in the 1970s-80s with some of the city's long-standing artists and activists, including Lourdes Guerrero, artist and educator; Indira Freitas […]
In this hour-long class, we will explore the history of the Greek diner and its profound influence on American food culture. On the eve of World War I, Greek immigrants […]
Join us for an evening of poetry, song and Scottish fun at Martyrs’. Admission is free!
Join us for a roundtable conversation exploring ideas for a renewed LaSalle Street corridor, which currently finds itself at a crossroads. How does an austere financial district transform into a […]
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, gather with us on-site at the Museum for a live opera performance of the first act of Two Remain: Out of Darkness, in […]
Join us for a screening of Chicago director James Fotopoulos's film "Two Girls." This is the story of young sisters in the American Midwest left alone with their increasingly unstable […]
Please join us Saturday, January 28th at 1 pm for a curatorial conversation with Margot McMahon (Resist! curator and daughter of Franklin McMahon) and UIMA Curator Adrienne Kochman regarding the […]
“Има картини, които те карат да се замислиш, да се разходиш из миналото или да се размечтаеш за бъдещето. Има такива, които ти говорят, разказват истории за хора, места и […]
“The Negro Motorist Green Book” guided Black Americans to thousands of businesses for over thirty years. When the first “Green Book” was published, the American road was a metaphor for freedom: freedom […]
After some delays we are excited to finally open “Arctic Highways.” Admission to see the exhibit is free between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. This exhibit discusses the exploitation of […]
For the price of one ticket join us for a night of Film and Food from Colombia. A reception with food and a glass of wine starts at 1800 and […]