Chicago Metro History Fair at the Chicago History Museum

The mission of the Chicago Metro History Fair is to spark students’ interest in the study of history,help them build high-level thinking skills, engage them in civic life, and foster their intellectual self-confidence.

• yearlong student programs, such as the Chicago Metro History Fair, that employ inquiry- and project-based approaches to the study of local and community history and use students’ natural curiosity to build their research and critical-thinking skills;