Chicago History Museum

From state champion to NBA champion! Congratulations to Jalen Brunson, Adlai E. Stevenson High School alumnus, for winning the 2026 NBA championship with the New York Knicks. Eleven years ago, Brunson led the Stevenson Patriots of Lincolnshire, IL, to the 2015 IHSA Boys Basketball Class 4A State Championship and earned Illinois Mr. Basketball honors.

You can find more high school basketball images from CHM’s collection here: https://ow.ly/Ig6e50ZcW6P

📸: Jalen Brunson celebrates the win on March 21, 2015. STM-052701406, STM-052701400, Worsom Robinson/Chicago Sun-Times

Civic Season begins this weekend! Presented in partnership with Made By Us, the Chicago History Museum collaborates with local community leaders, artists, and youth to set the stage every summer for Civic Season! Instead of a single commemorative event on Independence Day, our programming starts Juneteenth and continues with Civic Saturdays all leading toward our final program on July 4.

This year, on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we’re asking questions about our nation’s democracy in progress. Anchored in CHM’s collection materials relating to the United States’ founding and Chicago’s civic legacies, US at 250: Civic Action in Chicago invites visitors to engage with these questions and their own lived experiences through artistic interpretation, exhibitions, and educational programming, including lessons from historical clothing and stories of ongoing civic participation. https://ow.ly/bz9P50ZcREv