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Jul 12, 2024 - For as long as Chicago has been Chicago, Black people have been shaping the city’s culture and leaving a lasting impact. After all, Chicago’s first…

Nov 3, 2025 - The murder of Emmett Till, a Black teen from Chicago, and the subsequent criminal trial in Mississippi sparked the Civil Rights Movement. 

This year, Chicago Public Library has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carter G. Woodson Library. Lucky for us, there's…

Sep 12, 2025 - Dubbed the “Mother Road” by celebrated American author John Steinbeck, Route 66 runs from Chicago to Los Angeles. Since 1926, it’s been shuttling...

Dec 8, 2025 - A Chicago Cubs-centric digest, with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. M-W-F, three days a week.

Chicago Bears History

Nov 29, 2025 - Step into Chicago’s notorious past with Al Capone, mobsters, and true crime tales brought to life. Buy your ticket before the bus sells out!

Dec 8, 2025 - A look at every day in franchise history, with every story featuring a new addition

Dec 8, 2025 - Dick Allen is finally elected to the Hall of Fame

Nov 21, 2025 - Christmas came early on the South Side

Nov 14, 2025 - Garrett Crochet caps a miraculous comeback season as the Comeback winner

More than a century after our founding, we still believe in pushing the boundaries of “business as usual.”

Oct 24, 2025 - Aquí en Chicago celebrates the historically persistent cultural presence of Latino/a/e communities in Chicago.

Explore the agenda for the Stevens Doctoral Program's upcoming 100th anniversary celebration.

Oct 30, 2024 - Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower) is a 110 story building in the heart of Chicago’s downtown. Learn more Willis Tower History

Nov 19, 2025 - Back in the Madhouse.

Jan 7, 2025 - CHM's Studs Terkel Center for Oral History collaborates with community partners to promote oral history as a tool of social justice.

Mar 21, 2024 - Get your own piece of Chicago history — past or present — with images from the Sun-Times photography archive. You also can search for historic articles using...

Nov 21, 2025 - As the Great Thanksgiving Listen turns 10, Chicago-area high school teacher Stacy Flannery has led her students over the past decade to record thousands of...

Nov 24, 2025 - A Chicago Cubs-centric M-W-F digest, with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content.

Nov 15, 2024 - Learn how LGBTQ+ culture helped mold Chicago into the modern, progressive, and inclusive metropolis it is today.

Nov 18, 2025 - In Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s, see more than 100 posters, fliers, signs, newspapers, and more from the era, expressing often...

Nov 18, 2025 - Hank Greenberg prepares to head west with Bill Veeck

Apr 30, 2025 - Explore Prohibition-era Chicago, from the temperance movement to iconic speakeasies and notorious gangsters that shaped the city’s Roaring Twenties history.

Celebrate LBGTQIA+ history in October and all year around with the books recommended by CPL's Rainbow Committee.

Nov 3, 2025 - The history of the brownie begins in nineteenth-century Chicago at the 1893 World's Fair, which also included the debut of Juicy Fruit.

Jan 7, 2026 - Explore the history of Pullman in Chicago, from its planned community roots to labor movements, national monument status, and lasting impact today.

Feb 16, 2026 - This Black History Month roundtable featuring Bears content presenter Jasmine Baker, Chicago historian Shermann

Feb 11, 2026 - In 1926, alum Carter G. Woodson launched annual commemoration; learn about this year’s events at UChicago

Sep 10, 2024 - Explore Chicago’s rich architectural history, from iconic skyscrapers and historic landmarks to national parks. Explore local guides for must-see...

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Jan 5, 2026 - Chicago has long been an incredible melting pot of food culture and history, and that means there are several restaurants that help keep these traditions going.

Nov 15, 2025 - Ed Walsh, among dozens of other worthy players, is denied Hall entry

Jan 16, 2026 - A Chicago Cubs-centric digest, with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content.

Oct 31, 2025 - This holiday season, get in the spirit of the Jazz Age at our annual Members’ Holiday Party!

Nov 5, 2025 - Chicago Bulls erase 24-point deficit for NBA's biggest comeback this season, beating 76ers 113-111 on Nikola Vucevic's game-winning three.

Nov 28, 2025 - A Chicago Cubs-centric M-W-F digest, with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content.

Nov 4, 2025 - From women’s suffrage and the formation of labor unions, this exhibition highlights some of the ways Americans have struggled to gain rights.

Nov 17, 2025 - Happy birthday, Tom Terrific!

Jan 14, 2026 - A Chicago Cubs-centric digest, with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content.

Feb 20, 2026 - On Feb. 20, 1862, William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, died at the White House from what...

Chicago White Sox history, includes White Sox stats, White Sox rosters, White Sox schedules, White Sox uniform numbers, and White Sox records, research by...

Feb 18, 2026

OKC was hooping, as usual.

Nov 22, 2025 - Crosstown trade No. 10

Jun 5, 2025 - This summer, CHM is reimagining our celebrations, together. Instead of one commemorative event on Independence Day, CHM will be presenting our own “Civic...

Feb 16, 2026 - By Friday and the weekend, high temperatures will dip back into the 30s and 40s.

May 22, 2024 - Chicago is a city rich with history and we've created a list of fun facts about the city's population, history, attractions and many more interesting...

Feb 18, 2026 - On Feb. 18, 1970, the “Chicago Seven” defendants were found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention; five were...

Oct 14, 2025 - Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo missed an opportunity to become the first man to hold both the half and full marathon records following his win in Chicago.