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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 ...
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 ...
Max Nordeen's Wheels Museum, Woodhull [ 83][ 84] McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, Chicago, closed in 2009. Motorola Museum of Electronics, Schaumburg [ 85][ 86] Museum of Funeral Customs, Springfield, closed in 2009. Museum of Holography, Chicago [ 87] National Museum of Surveying, Springfield, closed in 2013.
25+. United States and Spain vs Great Britain and Indian Nations. Battle of Fort Dearborn. August 15, 1812. Present-day Chicago, Illinois. War of 1812. Potawatomi Victory. 67. United States vs Potawatomi.
Jul. 25—MINERAL WELLS — A labor of love one mile east of Mineral Wells is seeking public help to add a second phase to the National Vietnam War Museum. "Our museum will never accept money from ...
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. It is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago 's Grant Park. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, includes works such as Georges Seurat 's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso 's The Old ...
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 ...
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.