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    Member Tour: BREAKTHROUGH

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    A curator-led tour with Alexander Eisenschmidt

    BREAKTHROUGH: Housing Futures, installation view, 2025, National Public Housing Museum. Photo by Joe Nolasco.

    • National Public Housing Museum, 919 S. Ada Street, Chicago, IL 60607

    • By invitation to our members
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    Members of the National Public Housing Museum are invited to get a behind-the-scenes look at BREAKTHROUGH: Housing Futures, recently named in Newcity’s Design Top 5 list and as a winter pick by the Chicago Tribune.

    The tour will be led by exhibition organizer Alexander Eisenschmidt of the Housing Futures Initiative.

    Not a member yet? Now is a great time to join the National Public Housing Museum’s engaged community at the intersection of arts, culture, and public policy. Become a member today!

    Support

    Lead support for BREAKTHROUGH and related programming is provided by the Alvin H. Baum Family Fund. Through innovative grants and collaborations, the Fund helps ignite new ideas and promote solutions to ensure healthier, more equitable, and peaceful communities.

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    Upcoming events

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    Project Cinema: Films for South London

    Join us for a free film screening of Attack the Block and other short documentaries about public housing in the London, England.

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    Pokégnik Bodéwadnik: The Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi: Survival and Revival Through Storytelling

    Join us for a lunchtime conversation to break bread with one another and learn about the storytelling tradition of the Pokagon Potowatami people.

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    Weaving Our Civic Fabric: Quilting Basics I

    A quilting workshop, co-presented with Red Line Service.

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