Since 1790, the United States of America has counted its population every ten years as mandated by the United States Constitution in Article 1, Section 2. As one of its framers, James Madison was a strong proponent of including the census in the Constitution and wanted the official count of the population to be as More
This year, the first day of class for Chicago Public Schools students looks a little different due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No bus rides, no playgrounds, no lunchrooms. Two-dimensional faces on screens or if you’re seeing people in person, then it’s six feet apart and with a mask on. Despite how this year looks, we More
In 1894, president Grover Cleveland officially designated Labor Day a holiday in the US to honor the labor movement, which has many roots in Chicago. That year, thousands of workers at the Pullman Company went on strike in response to their wages being cut while rent in the “company town” of Pullman on Chicago’s South More
Missing college football’s annual fall kickoff? In our latest blog post, we’ve huddled up some images from the first half of the twentieth century, and Peter T. Alter, CHM chief historian and director of the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History, provides insights on a time when Chicago-area teams and coaches dominated the collegiate gridiron. More
From the earliest periods in Islamic history, Muslims have commemorated Ashura, which takes place during Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. Many Muslims fast on this day, as the Prophet Muhammad encouraged believers to do so in commemoration of the Prophet Moses’s deliverance from the Egyptian pharaoh. This year, Ashura begins the evening More