A space that provokes the notion that art shouldn’t be isolated for the ‘sophisticate’, but experienced by a myriad of viewers.

Court Theatre endeavors to make a lasting contribution to classic American theatre by expanding the canon of translations, adaptations, and classic texts. Our theatre revives lost masterpieces; illuminates familiar texts; explores the African American theatrical canon; and discovers fresh, modern classics. Court engages and inspires its audience by providing artistically distinguished productions, audience enrichment activities, and student educational experiences.

Founded in 1961 by teacher and art historian Dr. Margaret Burroughs and other leading Chicago citizens, the DuSable Museum is one of the few independent institutions of its kind in the United States. The Museum was developed to preserve and interpret experiences and achievements of people of African descent. The Museum is dedicated to the collection, documentation, preservation and study of the history and culture of Africans and African Americans. The DuSable Museum is proud of its diverse holdings that number more than 15,000 pieces and include paintings, sculpture, print works and historical memorabilia. Special exhibitions, workshops and lectures are featured to highlight works by particular artists, historical events or collections on loan from individuals or institutions.

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago is home to more than 400,000 square feet of hands-on exhibits designed to spark scientific inquiry and creativity.

Opened during 1933’s Century of Progress in a building from 1893’s Columbian Exposition, MSI is the place where generations have been coming to see what’s next.

Ours is the only building constructed for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition’s “White City” that remains at the site. Built as the fair’s Palace of Fine Arts, it is now home to the Western Hemisphere’s largest science museum.

Our unique building has had many lives – first as a passenger waiting room/employee rest area built in 1893/1894 by the Chicago Street Railway, a terminal/rest stop for the subsequent trolley system, a short-order diner from 1898-1952, and later as a storage shed for the two-wheeled carts used for delivering newspapers through the mid-1970s.

The Hyde Park Historical Society was officially chartered in January 1977, and purchased the building for about $4,000. Since then the building has been carefully restored, and continues to be used for the Society’s meetings, programs, and exhibits. We invite you to visit us every Saturday and Sunday from 2-4 p.m. The Society’s archives are housed in the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Regenstein Library.

Located on Chicago Park District land at 55th Street in Chicago’s south side Hyde Park neighborhood, it was opened to the public in 1937. Alfred Caldwell, a disciple of Jens Jensen, designed the landscaping, following the Prairie School which uses native plants and stone. Caldwell’s design featured a raised “meadow” section in the center of the 12-acre (49,000 m²) peninsula and included hundreds of flowering trees and shrubs. In 1938, Caldwell created stone sitting rings – called ‘council rings’ – around the lakefront edge, which today are used as fire pits. Few of Caldwell’s original plantings remain today.”