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Evanston History Center
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225 Greenwood St. - Evanston
The Evanston History Center is located in the Charles Gates Dawes House, built in 1895 and reflecting the era when Dawes, Vice President of the...
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Robert R. McCormick Museum at Cantigny
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1 S. 151 Winfield Rd. - Wheaton
This mansion was built in 1896 and later inherited by Chicago Tribune publisher Col. Robert R. McCormick, one of the nation's conservative power...
Arts and Culture / Architecture
Clarke House Museum
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1827 S. Indiana Ave. - Chicago (Near South Side)
The Prairie Avenue Historic District, two blocks east of Michigan Avenue, is a rich preserve of 19th Century residential architecture. All the...
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Kruse House Museum
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527 Main St. - West Chicago
Now the museum of the West Chicago Historical Society, this was once the home of Fred Kruse, a railroad conductor whose family's possessions,...
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Jane Addams Hull House Museum
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800 S. Halsted St. - Chicago (Little Italy/University Village)
The museum is located in the 19th Century mansion occupied by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, founders of the first Hull House settlement, an...
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Ernest Hemingway Birthplace
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339 N. Oak Park Ave. - Oak Park
Oak Park's Nobel Prize-winning literary son and his work are intelligently illuminated by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, which has assembled...
Arts and Culture / Architecture
Glessner House Museum
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1800 S. Prairie Ave. - Chicago (Near South Side)
The Prairie Avenue Historic District is a rich preserve of 19th Century residential architecture. All the bigwigs lived on the Avenue in its heyday,...
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Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society
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413 N. Milwaukee Ave. - Libertyville
Built in 1870, the Ansel B. Cook Home was the residence of a farmer, stonemason and legislator from early Libertyville. On the town square where the...
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Aurora Historical Museum
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317 Cedar St. - Aurora
The Aurora Historical Society museum, once the home of a leading businessman of the city, William Tanner, depicts a slice of life along the Fox...
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Zion Historical Society
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1300 Shiloh Blvd. - Zion
The museum is located in the former home of the founder of the city of Zion, John Alexander Dowie, who was also founder of the Christian Catholic...
