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Edelman Museum preserves the company and founder’s legacy 

Avery Heeringa, May 3, 2024July 16, 2024

Consisting of personal memos, artifacts and company campaign history, the Edelman Museum in the company’s West Loop office space captures the distinguished history of the company, reports Avery Heeringa.

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Arts & Culture

A New Approach to Sunday Mornings

Chicago Talks, March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

Dimmed lights, silence, and the gentleness in the atmosphere is nothing but a mood for…

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Arts & Culture

The Museum of Contemporary Photography’s take on gun violence

Chicago Talks, December 16, 2021January 26, 2022

In response to skyrocketing statistics of gun deaths and injuries, the “American Epidemic: Guns in…

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Entertainment

Renovations For Walt Disney’s Birth Home In Hermosa Back On Track After Failed Kickstarter

Chicago Talks, December 5, 2014

When a California couple and owners of Super78 Media Studios purchased the birth home of…

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See Summer Magic at Chicago History Museum

Chicago Talks, July 5, 2012

For three weeks in July, the Museum is proud to welcome some of Chicago’s most…

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Community

Who Defines Individuals in Our Society? View, Participate

Chicago Talks, July 4, 2012

WHAT: The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago opens “I Define…

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Multimedia

MCA Exhibit Explores 80s Art Upheavals

Chicago Talks, March 11, 2012

CLICK FOR SLIDESHOW FROM MUSEUM Various visitors to Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art offered their…

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Community The vacant building that will become the National Public Housing Museum

Little Italy Residents Express Mixed Feelings On Public Housing Museum

Chicago Talks, November 22, 2011

The first housing project in Chicago, the Jane Addams Homes, opened in 1938 as part of the Roosevelt administration’s Public Works Administration Act, a program aimed at creating jobs and reviving the economy in response to the Great Depression. Plans for a museum have been in motion since December of 2006 when the CHA’s Central Advisory Council first proposed the museum and set a goal to open the museum’s doors by 2012. But the plan’s momentum has been drawn almost to a halt by community disapproval and a lack of funding, according to Chris Provenzano, a spokesman for the University Village Association.

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