Bronzed for posterity Throughout the city can be found many outdoor bronze sculptures of famous Civil War heroes. Their figures remind us of the sacrifices these men made at a time when our country… ...

Pritzker said at the museum. “Despite our current divisions and challenges, more than 150 years after a terrible civil war, our nation perseveres. Yet we must constantly learn the lessons of our ...

While Chicago libraries, post offices and banks ... found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.