CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced that the Government of India has given a major grant to the Art Institute in support of a new professional exchange program between India and the museum. The Vivekananda Memorial Program for Museum Excellence –the first grant ever made by the Indian government to an American art museum–honors Swami Vivekananda, who gave one of the most important speeches in modern religious history at what is now the Art Institute on September 11, 1893. On Saturday, January 28, 2012, the Art Institute will host an Indian delegation to sign this agreement and rededicate the site of Vivekananda’s landmark speech at the first World’s Parliament of Religions, held in conjunction with the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. The Vivekananda