At Maritime Museum, exhibits about Black sailor and Lady Elgin sinking chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Located on the Chicago River's Bubbly Creek branch that runs through the Bridgeport neighborhood, the museum has everything from the story of how World War II pilots trained on Lake Michigan to replicas of canoes used hundreds of years ago to navigate the Great Lakes.
Lady Elgin and Captain Bill Pinkney sailing into Chicago Maritime Museum nwitimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nwitimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Chicago Maritime Museum will have two new permanent exhibitions on May 17 that focus on the Lady Elgin, the deadliest disaster on the open waters of