Welcome to the Chicago History Museum pressroom. Please feel free to browse through all of our releases or skip to information of particular interest using one of the following links:

• Press Kit
  
• Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
• Upcoming Events
• Media Advisories
• Current Media Calendar
• Chicago History Museum Fact Sheets
• Chicago History Museum Biographies
• Annual Reports
• News of Note
• Press Release Archive
  
• Podcasts
  

For More Information

Media inquiries regarding the Chicago History Museum should be directed to Public Relations Manager Lauren Dolan via phone 312.799.2161 or e-mail pressinfo@chicagohistory.org.

Program and event inquiries from the general public should be directed to our Visitor Services office via phone 312.642.4600 or e-mail reception@chicagohistory.org.

Student Inquiries: While the Museum greatly supports students using its resources, requests for interviews with curators and/or video-recording of the Museum may be denied due to the high volume of requests during peak times, such as the end of a semester. The Museum may also deny your request during its busiest visitation periods or during special Museum events, such as exhibition openings and special programs. We will review each request on a case-by-case basis, and we regret that we cannot accommodate every proposal. Thank you for your understanding.

Press Kit

The current Chicago History Museum press kit features the upcoming exhibition Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum.

Please contact Lauren Dolan at 312.799.2161 or pressinfo@chicagohistory.org to request the entire kit, including hi-res image files and hard copy.

> Preview images of five of the gowns included in the exhibition

> Download the entire Chic Chicago press kit, including hi-res image files (zip file, 176 MB)

Download individual documents from the Chic Chicago press kit:

• Chic Chicago press release (PDF, 32 KB)
  
• Chic Chicago program schedule (PDF, 15 KB)
  
• Chic Chicago fact sheet (PDF, 34 KB)
  
• Costume and Textile Collection fact sheet (PDF, 81 KB)
  
• Chic Chicago preview announcement (PDF, 31 KB)
  
• Biography of Timothy Long, exhibition curator (PDF, 46 KB)
  
• Biography of Meghan E. Smith, collection manager (PDF, 52 KB)
  

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

> Chic Chicago
> Catholic Chicago
> Chicago: Crossroads of America
> Imagining Chicago: The Dioramas
> Sensing Chicago
> Treasures

Recent Exhibitions

> Big Picture: A New View of Painting in Chicago
> Schaumburg: From Cornfield to Woodfield
> Quilts: A Patchwork History
> Mapping Chicago: The Past and the Possible
> Is It Real?

Upcoming Events

Media Advisories

03/31/2008 | Safe on Campus? Curbing Violence in our Schools
03/20/2008 | Quilts: A Patchwork History Closing this Sunday

News of Note

05/08/2008 | Great Chicago Stories: A Virtual Field Trip Through History
03/31/2008 | 3-Year Project Brings Architectural Photographs to the Public Eye
12/13/2007 | 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" Legal Documents Archive Acquired by CHM
09/27/2007 | Museum honors Principal
08/30/2007 | Museum's Couture Collection Travels to NYC

Current Media Calendar

Chicago History Museum Fact Sheets

Chicago History Museum Biographies

Executive Staff
> Gary T. Johnson, President
> Russell Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Historian
> Phyllis Rabineau, Vice President of Interpretation and Education

Curators and Historians
> Olivia Mahoney, Chief Curator
> Peter Alter, Curator
> Joy Bivins, Curator
> Jill Thomas Grannan, Curator
> John Russick, Curator
> Timothy Long, Curator
> Sarah Marcus, Historian and Managing Editor, Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago

Annual Reports

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