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• Chicago History Museum Rescheduled Jim Belushi

  Published: October 12, 2007, 7:25 am

  Tags: Arts, Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Museums

  Chicago Treasures is a series of conversations with Chicago personalities discussing their views on Chicago and how their careers and the city have shaped and influenced each other. Date rescheduled from October 17 to November 7 due to Hollywood writers strike.

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• Chicago History Museum Welcomes DJ Spooky

  Published: October 13, 2007, 1:14 am

  Tags: Arts, Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Museums

  The Chicago History Museum welcomes New York based writer, musician, and conceptual artist, Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid to perform his newest multimedia performance piece, Subliminal Strings: Link City on Saturday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Museum.

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• Chicago History Museum Debuts At FIT

  Published: October 13, 2007, 1:12 am

  Tags: Arts, Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Museums

  The Chicago History Museum (CHM) in collaboration with the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) will provide visitors a rare opportunity to see 50 of the greatest couture pieces from the Chicago History Museum's acclaimed collection of more than 22 million artifacts.

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• Chicago Museum Honors Rock Band Chicago

  Published: November 22, 2007, 3:41 am

  Tags: Arts, Chicago, Chicago History Museum, Museums

  The Chicago History Museum has teamed up with the band Chicago to commemorate the band's 40th anniversary by presenting the installation CHICAGO 40: The Band and its City, at the Museum's entrance which will be on display, Tuesday, December 4, and will run through Sunday, March 30, 2008.

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• The 1933 Century of Progress and my [Vague] Serendipitous Connection

  Published: May 13, 2008, 7:00 am

  Tags: Chicago History Museum, Old Heidleburg, 1933 Century Of Progress, Chicago History, 1933 Chicago World S Fair

  Chicago Sun-times last weekend (May 11, 2008) had a piece by Andrew Herrmann titled "1933 WORLD'S FAIR Chicago History Museum is giving new life online to photographer's images of Century of Progress." Ken Hedrich peered through his camera 75 years ago and captured the images of his age. Now, those photographs of the Century of

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• Housing Reform and Labor Songs from Chicago History Magazine

  Published: May 12, 2008, 9:00 am

  Tags: Chicago Labor Songs, Chicago History Magazine, Chicago History Museum, Chicago History

  Spring 2008 issue of Chicago History Magazine, published by the Chicago History Museum, has been released. The two in-depth articles are "Regulating Urban Living" by Margaret Garb and "Solidarity Forever" by Bucky Halker. Garb's article is actually an excerpt from chapter three of her acclaimed book, City of American Dreams: A History of

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• New CHM Blog in the History Hood

  Published: September 3, 2008, 6:30 am

  Tags: Chicago History Museum, Chicago History

  took you so long?" The Chicago History Museum has a new blog. It's more marketing and PR for the museum exhibits than history, but that may be their sole purpose. And, there is nothing wrong with that, I suppose. I'm personally hoping, however, it will evolve into something a bit more. There is a link to the Encyclopedia of Chicago, but

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