Chicago History Museum
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Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society. The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum and library has been located in Lincoln Park si
Clark Street facade of the Chicago History Museum
1896–1932 home of the Chicago Historical Society.
East facade of the museum (built 1932)
South Side Elevated Railroad car 1.
Lincoln Park
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Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US president Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven mil
Chicago History Museum
…the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum and library has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded…
Aerial view of the seven-mile-long Lincoln Park shoreline
Couch Mausoleum in Lincoln Park, October 2013. This mausoleum is the only standing remnant of the cemetery that existed in part of Lincoln Park in the 19th century.
Image from Harper's Weekly of people escaping the Great Chicago Fire by fleeing to the cemetery in Lincoln Park
A concert in Lincoln Park circa 1907