Chicago History Museum

So Kambria and I went to the Library last night after dropping Bryan back off to his library so he could study. We FINALLY got a library card...you have to have a mailed letter that is post marked with your new address that is within the last 30 days and a photo id. So we had to wait to get mail...which we ended up mailing ourselves a letter...only to see if we really could get mail...and ended up getting 3 pieces of mail the same day...

So back to the story. The reason we wanted a library card was to of course check out books for Kambria since we didn't bring very many books, but also you can check out museum passes that get you into 13 of the famous museums around town for FREE!!!

Yes, that is right for free! You can only have one pass out at a time and you get that pass for a week. No one can reserve or put these on hold, so whatever is available at the time you go to the library is what you get. So the history museum is what they had. So Kambria and I went today. This is a picture of the entrance of the museum. It is a low rider car with all sorts of street signs hanging above it.

And then there is a wall next to it with all sorts of sign on it too..

This was one of Kambria's favorite areas. It is the children's area...she could actually get our and run around. This is one of the first bicycles. She was a little nervous to be up on it, but did it for the picture. She enjoyed "riding" the small wheel better...

There was also a play Chicago dog that was made of material.
she did not enjoy sitting on it for very long.
So this is the history part of the museum. Kambria sat in her stroller and ate crackers while I tried to read about it. Here is a picture of some of info available.

This is a picture of one of the first elevated trains in Chicago
And this is called the Pioneer. It made it last trip in 1948...only due to some "modern" advances.

Kambria loved climbing on it...more so because she could and did not get in trouble for doing so. ;o) The rest of the museum had some very interesting facts and displays, but Kambria was not too interested, so it cut our time short. Oh well. It was fun to go and see and do...and none-the-less for FREE!!