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Chicago Historical Society

Chicago History Museum was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. It is located at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood. Wikipedia*

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Chicago Historical Society has hosted 5 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1996 Forum. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2002 with an average of 309 views per video. Most appearances with Kathleen Zygman (2). Most common tags: U.S. History, History.

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    Inventing America

    Co-authors Merritt Smith. Alexander Keyssar, Pauline Maier and Daniel Kevles discussed their book Inventing America, publishe…

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    Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

    Studs Terkel talked with Ms. Lewis about his most recent book, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, a

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    Studs Terkel and Chicago

    The School Bus crew learned about Chicago history.

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    Chicago Conventions Exhibit

    Kathleen Zygman, Exhibit Curator, provided a tour of the current exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society titled, “Parades, …

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