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Pritzker Military Museum & Library. / 41.88056°N 87.62500°W / 41.88056; -87.62500. The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (formerly Pritzker Military Library) is a non-profit museum and a research library for the study of military history on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. The institution was founded in 2003, and its specialist ...
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Chicago) Western view of the memorial, 2007 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a war memorial in Chicago , in the U.S. state of Illinois , dedicated on November 11, 2005.
The National Veterans Art Museum, formerly the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, located at 4041 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago's six corners neighborhood, is dedicated to displaying and studying art produced by veterans from the Vietnam War and other wars and conflicts. Originally a traveling exhibition, while in Chicago it was viewed by ...
Coordinates: 39°49′11″N 89°39′45″W. Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial honors the 2,970 Illinois residents who are listed as killed or listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. Dedicated in 1988, the Memorial includes the names of the dead or missing carved in black granite walls that radiate from the central eternal flame.
Part of the 1968 U.S. presidential election, the Protests of 1968, Opposition to the Vietnam War and political violence in the United States during the Cold War. Chicago police drag an anti-Vietnam war protester across Michigan Avenue on August 28, 1968, during the Democratic National Convention as the crowd chants "The whole world is watching".
Jun. 20—MINERAL WELLS — The National Vietnam War Museum began with a garden, a stark contrast to the story it tells inside a 20,000-square-foot chamber that will open Saturday in a 10 a.m ...
Elks National Memorial and Headquarters. The Elks National Veterans Memorial (officially the Elks National Memorial and Headquarters Building [1]) is a Beaux Arts-style domed building at 2750 North Lakeview Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It is across from Lincoln Park and close to the park's Goethe Monument and statue of Alexander Hamilton .
Slater Area Historical Association is located at Heritage Hall, 318 First Ave. A reception honoring local Vietnam veterans will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday. The museum offers free admission, open ...