Media Coverage

Chairman and Benefactor Captain Dave Truitt Passes Away Chicago Tribune, Oct. 2024

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/08/david-truitt-lawyer-who-co-founded-olive-harvey-college-and-revived-chicago-christmas-ship-dies-at-90/

Black Impressionist on Chicago River, Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 2024

https://chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/2024/08/18/mysteries-questions-outdoors-black-impressionist-on-chicago-river-to-illinois-largemouth-bass

Chicago Maritime Museum Showcases Paintings by Black Artist James Bolivar Needham, WGN-TV, July 2024
https://wgntv.com/video/chicago-maritime-museum-showcases-paintings-by-black-artist-james-bolivar-needham/9903006/

New film remembers the SS Eastland and the day 844 died in the Chicago River, July, 2024
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/07/17/new-film-remembers-the-ss-eastland-and-the-day-844-died-in-the-chicago-river/

Chicago Maritime Museum Launches New Exhibit Featuring Chicago Captain Bill Pinkney, FOX-32 Chicago, May, 2024
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/maritime-museum-bridgeport-chicago-captain-bill-pinkney

New Exhibits at the Chicago Maritime Museum, WGN-AM 720, May 2024
https://wgnradio.com/after-hours-with-rick-kogan/an-exhibit-you-wont-want-to-miss/

Significant Additions to Chicago Maritime Museum, Scuttlebutt Sailing News, May 2024
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/05/01/significant-additions-to-chicago-maritime-museum/

CMM Dedicates Exhibit to the Deadly Sinking of the Lady Elgin, Chicago Tribune, May, 2024

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/23/now-at-chicago-maritime-museum-exhibits-devoted-to-a-black-sailor-and-the-deadly-sinking-of-the-lady-elgin/

Mystery Frames River Paintings Now at Chicago Maritime Museum, CBS News, Feb. 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/river-paintings-chicago-maritime-museum/

New Maritime Museum Exhibit Shows Chicago River In A Beautiful Light, Block Club Chicago, Feb. 2024
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/02/15/new-maritime-museum-exhibit-shows-chicago-river-in-a-beautiful-light/

Don Glasell, Curator of the Chicago Maritime Museum, Dies at 94, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 2022

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2022/02/17/don-glasell-who-sailed-in-56-chicago-to-mackinac-races-dies-at-94/

New Deal-era Mural About Ships Finds a New Life at a Bridgeport Museum, Chicago Sun-Times, April 2021
https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2021/4/16/22372744/chicago-murals-gustaf-dalstrom-wpa-maritime-museum-history-ships

Documentary Showcases Renowned Chicago Canoe-Builder Ralph Frese, WTTW, Oct. 2018
https://news.wttw.com/2018/01/25/documentary-showcases-renowned-chicago-canoe-builder-ralph-frese

Chicago Maritime Museum Opens in Bridgeport, WTTW, June, 2016
https://news.wttw.com/2016/06/02/chicago-maritime-museum-opens-bridgeport

Chicago Maritime Museum: Thoughts on Beginning of Permanent Home, Chicago Sun-Times, June 2016
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2016/6/4/18365863/chicago-maritime-museum-thoughts-on-beginning-of-permanent-home