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As the end of Ramadan approaches, Rebekah Coffman, Curator of Religion and Community History, writes about the Ojalá Islamic Center in Berwyn, Illinois, the first Latino-led mosque in the Midwest, and how it formed to be a space for Latino Muslims in the Chicago area.
Ojalá community picnic, 2025. Courtesy of Ojalá Foundation
At sundown on...
Jojo Galvan Mora, CHM Digital Humanities Fellow, writes about the significance of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo being elected president of Mexico, how Chicago’s Mexican community both influenced and is impacted by it, and the community’s importance in local, national, and international politics.
As midnight drew closer on June 2, 2024, Mexican voters on both sides o...
How can we help shape our communities and country for the better? By Using our Civic Superpowers!
Made by Us developed Civic Superpowers for their annual Civic Season, and CHM staff has applied them to develop this classroom activity. Students e...
In recognition of Women’s History Month, we share excerpts from a forthcoming Chicago History article by Ann Saunders on her mother Doris E. Saunders, a librarian, author, editor, businesswoman, and professor, perhaps best known in Chicago for her work with Johnson Publishing Company, which published Ebony and Jet magazines and empowered Black s...
As part of our Aquí en Chicago exhibition, which traces the lives of Latino/a/e communities in Chicago, our blog post series by guest authors highlights