The possibility of locating the Barack Obama presidential library in Jackson Park or Washington Park is a good time to review the history of museums in Chicago’s parks.Attracting museums to ...

The Art Institute, Chicago’s most celebrated cultural institution, sits on the city’s front porch. Yet, it was not there when ...

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, on 56th Place in Washington Park, was begun in 1961 and has struggled with funding and administration issues. Its director hopes to make it ...

Pride South Side, the annual festival celebrating the life, legacy and history of LGBTQ+ people on Chicago’s South Side, is ...

Hyde Park native brings ‘Battle Royale’ installation to WNDR Museum The New Vanguard and the museum partnered for “Creatives of Color,” a rotating exhibition spotlighting four Chicago artists.

The new University of Chicago fossil lab, which opened Thursday on the South Side, is home to the "Super Croc," a fossil of a 40-foot long crocodile that roamed the Earth about 110 million years ago.

CHICAGO (AP) — Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America.