Chicago History Museum: Entry Ticket

Explore the history of Chicago and United States through permanent and temporary exhibitions drawn from more than 20 million items in the Chicago History Museum. Showcasing photography, documents, artifacts, and interviews, the permanent and temporary galleries are full of Chicago stories!

Chicago: Crossroads of America explores the city’s development and its influence on US history. Examine a treasure trove of historical artifacts, including a chunk of the original Fort Dearborn and the actual first locomotive to operate in Chicago.

Designed for young visitors, the Sensing Chicago exhibition encourages them to use all five senses to discover Chicago’s history and even pretend to be a Chicago-style hot dog.

In the dynamic film, The Great Chicago Adventure, see the intensity of the Great Chicago Fire, experience the splendor of the World’s Columbian Exposition, explore the sights of bustling Maxwell Street in the 1950s and peer down from an I-beam at the top of the Sears Tower in the 1970s.