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Tours
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Explore Chicago with walking, bus, boat, bike, kayak, and 'L' tours, as well as our popular History Pub Crawls.
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Lincoln Park
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Crossroads
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Chicago: Crossroads of America
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Get Lincolnized!
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Celebrate America’s ultimate icon by sharing your inner Lincoln. Check out the Everybody’s Lincoln web application, where you can upload pictures of yourself, ...
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My Chicago Membership
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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
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In 2009, the Chicago History Museum invites you to get to know Abraham Lincoln. Throughout the year-long bicentennial celebration of Lincoln’s birth year, a ...
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2005 Publications
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Discount Membership
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Discount Membership
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Multimedia
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Picture history through interactive features. Kids’ artwork brings the city landscape to life, paintings tell the history of the city’s art scene, collages ...
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Audio
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Listen to the voice of history. Download podcasts of Museum events, audio tours, and history stories for children and youth.
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Video
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Watch history in motion. Learn how globes and lowriders are made, catch glimpses of the city’s past in rarely seen film footage, and view interviews with the ...
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Games
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Learn Chicago history while playing games based on the Chicago flag. Fun for children ages 6 and up.
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Face-to-Face with the Great Depression
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In this unit, students will study the Great Depression through the reflections of those who lived in America at that time. By studying both primary and ...
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History through Opposing Eyes: America and Protest
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The lessons in this unit examine different methods of protest as a part of American history. Students will look at how political cartoons work to convey ...
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Playing in Chicago
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The lesson plans in this unit introduce students to the toy industry of Chicago’s past—the inventors of famous toys, the purpose and history of toys, and the ...
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The First Ferris Wheel
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These lesson plans look at the world's first Ferris wheel, invented for Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Students explore the creative inspiration ...
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Chicago's World's Fairs
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This set of lesson plans cover a range of topics related to the Chicago World’s Fairs of 1893 and 1933–34, including architecture; the connections between ...
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Through the Camera's Lens: The Civil War in Photographs
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The lesson plans in this unit use the work of the studio of Mathew Brady to explore the process and impact of photography during the Civil War, discuss issues ...
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The Civil War: Up Close and Personal
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The lesson plans in this unit use the diary of Confederate Private William D. Huff to provide a new perspective of life at Camp Douglas, Chicago’s prisoner of ...
