Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Historical Society
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About this organization
Mission
The Chicago History Museum's mission is to share Chicago's stories, serving as a hub of scholarship and learning, inspiration, and civic engagement.
About
EDUCATION AND AUDIENCE - CHM engages audiences as collaborators, encouraging them to see themselves in the history of the city. Our exhibitions and programmatic offerings bring Chicago's past to life for families, adults, Museum members, and students. In 2019, nearly 270,000 individuals visited the Museum and participated in our programs, including over 52,000 K-12 students on free school visits. CHM provided professional development to over 600 teachers through workshops and curricular support. The Museum hosts robust public programs, including panel discussions, commemorative day celebrations, film screenings, and public history tours of the many iconic sites and neighborhood treasures of Chicago. Through the Chicago 00 project, CHM offers multi-media digital history experiences that immerse viewers in defining moments of the past using virtual and augmented reality applications of images from our collection. Episodes include the Eastland Disaster, the award-winning St. Valentine's Day Massacre, A Century of Progress, featuring the 1933-34 world's fair, and The 1968 DNC Protests. These experiences allow the Museum to bring its collection and interpretive content to audiences all over the world. CHM served over 13,000 students through the Chicago Metro History Fair, a program that engages 100 schools with an inquiry-based curriculum, resources and events culminating in showcases of student projects. 2019 was the sixth year of the Chicago Hot Dog Fest, which brought a record 34,099 visitors to the Museum to celebrate one of the city's most enduring delicacies.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The non-profit's mission is outlined in the filing as being “To share chicago's stories, serving as a hub of scholarship and learning, inspiration, and civic engagement is the foundation of the museum's programs and events, exhibitions, educational initiatives, publications, and collecting activities that touch the lives of all chicagoans and help them make meaningful and personal connections to history.”.
When outlining its responsibilities, they were referred to as: “To share chicago's stories, serving as a hub of scholarship and learning, inspiration, and civic engagement.”.
- The state in which the non-profit operates has been officially reported as IL.
- The filing reveals the non-profit's address in 2020 to be 1601 N Clark Street, Chicago, IL, 60614.
- As per the non-profit's form for 2020, they have 157 employees on their payroll.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$4,675,000.
- The organization has 73 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1857.
- The organization pays $7,874,094 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $1,823,761 in fundraising expenses.