Unexpected Chicago
Kovler Family Lobby
Unexpected Chicago
What’s the most surprising thing about a collection made up of millions artifacts? A single artifact! This world-class collection holds the second largest costume collection in the world including clothing and accessories as well as thousands of linear feet of archives and manuscripts that make up the equivalent of forty-nine football fields or twelve Willis Towers. Unexpected Chicago is a way to reveal unexpected treasures of Chicago history a single artifact at a time.
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Unexpected Chicago is supported by a gift from The Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Foundation.
