“City on Fire: Chicago 1871,” through Jan. 26 at the Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark St.; open Tuesdays-Saturdays 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sundays 12-5 p.m.; $19 admission, $17 ...
Chicago’s museums are world-class, but all those bones, weather simulators and rides in Chicago’s first El train car don’t come cheap. Throw in parking, special exhibits and the gift shop, and it adds ...
Close to forty million of them are at the Field Museum in Chicago, mostly behind the scenes in a vast library documenting life on Earth. These collections are used by scientists at the museum and ...