For the Chicagoan Who Has Everything

The Chicago History Museum has come up with the perfect gift for people who love Chicago: a piece of our past. With their “Adopt An Artifact” program, anyone can be responsible for preserving the city’s history. Donation levels start at $35 and there are six artifacts you can adopt:

Kukla, Fran, and Ollie’s Colonel Crackie

The Railsplitter, a larger-than-life Lincoln campaign painting, 1860

Terra-cotta arch from the Union Stock Yard, 1888

Frank Lloyd Wright–designed stained-glass windows, 1902

Burnham and Bennett’s Plan of Chicago, 1909

President Lincoln’s order to affix the Seal of the United States on the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863

Just like your first Cabbage Patch doll (although I never had one of those so I could be wrong), there are adoption papers. For real Chicago buffs the really cool part of this gift is that their names will be on a board in the museum’s lobby.

Oh Mom…are you reading this?

Adopt An Artifact here

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