Through the ages: The Art Institute of Chicago

Written by Finn Martin and Gavin Meichelbock

The Art Institute of Chicago has been a cultural hub of Chicago’s cultural prowess since it found its permanent home on Michigan Avenue and Adams Street in 1893 and well before. The museum features art from almost every country across its galleries spanning the modern Americas, Edo Japan and Medieval Europe. These wings house some of the most rebound works from Claude Monet’s “Gare Saint-Lazare,” Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” and who can forget the ever-iconic “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat. Whether you’re here as an art connoisseur, a tourist with a city pass or because Ferris Bueller told you to, The Art Institute of Chicago truly has something for everyone.