Chicago Historical Society
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Grants
24
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Total Awarded
$4,053,000
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Years
1979 - 2023
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Categories
Grants
2023 (3 years)
$150,000
The mission of the Chicago History Museum (CHM) is to share Chicago's stories, serving as a hub of scholarship and learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Established in 1856 as the Chicago Historical Society, CHM is the city's oldest cultural institution. CHM hosts more than 250,000 visitors and 60,000 elementary and high school students annually. Through its exhibits, public programs, tours, and sizable education programs, CHM helps Chicagoans make personal connections to history. This award recommends renewed general operating support to the Chicago History Museum as part of the Foundation's Culture, Equity, and the Arts program.
2022 (1 year)
$50,000
Established in 1856 as the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago History Museum is the city's oldest cultural institution. The Museum hosts more than 250,000 visitors and 60,000 elementary and high school students annually. Through its exhibits, public programs, tours, and education programs, the Museum helps Chicagoans make personal connections to history. With this X-Grant, the museum convenes community representatives and museum board and staff members in conversations around a new community-driven initiative
called "Aquí en Chicago." The process will inform a new exhibit on the diverse historical narratives of Latino/a/x people in Chicago.
2018 (5 years)
$350,000
The mission of the Chicago History Museum (the Museum) is to share Chicago's stories, serving as a hub of scholarship and learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Established in 1856 as the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago History Museum is the city's oldest cultural institution. The Museum hosts more than 250,000 visitors and 60,000 elementary and high school students each year. Through its exhibits, public programs, tours, and sizable education programs, the Museum helps Chicagoans make personal connections to history. This award recommends renewed general operating support to the Chicago History Museum.
2017 (2 years)
$50,000
The Chicago Historical Society, which houses the Chicago History Museum, is the city’s oldest cultural institution, serving as a hub of scholarship and learning through its programs, exhibitions and research center. With this award, the Chicago History Museum works with the Polish History Museum to explore inter-generational immigration experiences of Poles in Chicago through the collection of oral histories. The culminating exhibitions are presented in Chicago and Warsaw, Poland. Award funds support travel, lodging, stipends, supplies, programs, and events.
2013 (5 years)
$315,000
The Chicago Historical Society was established in 1856 and is the city’s oldest cultural institution. It collects, interprets and presents the history of Chicago and Illinois. Each year more than 50,000 K-12 students participate in the Historical Society’s educational programs. Public programming and tours reach more than 3,000 individuals annually. The Research Center is used by more than 10,000 researchers each year. Recent investments in digital services bring Historical Society programs, collections and curriculum to 2 million online users annually. This grant will support general operations of the Historical Society, new and continuing exhibitions, and educational initiatives.
2002 (3 years)
$650,000
In support of the "Chicago Sports: You Shoulda Been There" exhibition, and space renovation with a particular focus on the Children's Gallery (over three years).
1993 (3 years)
$90,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1993 (1 year)
$300,000
To support an institutional change initiative and develop new galleries.
1991 (1 year)
$100,000
In support of general operations (over two years).
1989 (1 year)
$253,000
To support the exhibition "A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln."
1988 (3 years)
$180,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1986 (1 year 1 month)
$100,000
In support of general operations (over two years).
1985 (2 years 1 month)
$450,000
To support the Chicago Historical Society's Futures Fund, a quasi-endowment fund created for long-term needs.
1984 (1 year)
$90,000
In support of general operations (over two years).
1983 (1 year)
$25,000
In support of general operations.
1982 (1 year)
$25,000
In support of general operations.
1981 (1 year)
$20,000
In support of general operations.
1980 (1 year)
$25,000
In support of general operations.
1979 (1 year)
$25,000
In support of general operations.
