Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 2, according to the Tribune’s archives.
Today in Chicago History: 8,000 people attend opening of Field Museum
Category: Museums
Your museum’s federal grant has been terminated. Best wishes, Keith E. Sonderling
Dozens of Illinois museums expected federal funding this year. The Trump Administration is now rescinding many of those grants.
Art Institute of Chicago told to surrender drawing to heirs of man killed in Nazi concentration camp
A judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that the Art Institute of Chicago must surrender a 1916 drawing by Egon Schiele to investigators who plan to return it to the heirs of a Jewish cabaret entertainer from Vienna who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1941.
Black churches back embattled Smithsonian African American history museum after Trump’s order
“For only $25 a year, you can protect Black history,” Rev. Otis Moss III of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago told his church.
Artists rip Mayor Brandon Johnson’s arts commissioner, department ‘dysfunction’ in letter
The letter, posted to Instagram Wednesday as a petition people can sign, harshly criticizes Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Commissioner Clinée Hedspeth.
With a major new donation, the MCA will ramp up live performance in its theater
Thanks to a $10 million gift from an anonymous donor, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art says it plans to greatly expand its live performance offerings in its 300-seat Edlis Neeson Theater.
Chicago Humanities Spring Festival boasts Leslie Odom Jr., Eve Ewing and Paul Reiser — because culture isn’t dead yet
It has always been a festival of ideas, never more appreciated than now.
Daywatch: State lawmakers move measure aimed at protecting warehouse workers
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
Northerly Island’s potential as an urban oasis goes unrealized as grand plans come and go
A century after its construction, the island is home to traffic bottlenecks on concert days, erosion problems and a little-known nature preserve.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and wife donate key Civil War document to Lincoln presidential library
Gov. J.B. Pritkzer and his wife, M.K., donated a key document from the Civil War to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.