Museums
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Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum retiring climate change exhibit, increasing admissionJan 31, 2023 4:00 am - After a six-year run, the climate change exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will close Feb. 5 to make way for an immersive gallery of Chicago-area nature that'...
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Best Bets: Hey Nonny Blues Week, Brian Posehn, AnthraxJan 25, 2023 5:00 am - 'Through Darkness' The exhibition "Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad," showcasing works by photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales, opens t...
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Elmhurst Artists' Guild puts out call for art inspired by Andy WarholJan 23, 2023 10:00 pm - Andy Warhol was one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. During the summer of 2023, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn will display an important exh...
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Elmhurst History Museum explores 'How the World Arrived on Lake Michigan's Shores'Jan 22, 2023 10:00 pm - For generations, and at least since the first Algonquian-speaking tribes arrived here, the Chicago area has attracted people whose lives were disrupted by war, famine, r...
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Family's postcards help bring Schaumburg's history to lifeJan 17, 2023 5:00 am - When Kathy Reynolds of Roselle first connected with Schaumburg Township District Library's Local History Librarian Jane Rozek about 10 years ago, she wasn't quite sure w...
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166 years as a 'library of the natural world': You can see some of Notebaert museum's specimensJan 11, 2023 4:00 am - In an unassuming industrial building in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago lie nearly 400,000 meticulously preserved natural specimens. The birds, mammals, plants, f...
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'A Christmas Carol' radio play returns to Cantigny Dec. 17-18Dec 13, 2022 10:00 pm - Cantigny Park in Wheaton presents something familiar but new for the holidays - an adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," performed as a 1940s radio play before a live audie...
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Things to do Dec. 16-22: Suburbs pack in the holiday events this weekendDec 13, 2022 10:00 pm - Starts before Friday Santa Claus at Geneva Commons: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily through Sunday, Dec. 18, at Geneva Commons, 410 Commons Drive, Geneva. Stop by Santa's s...
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Christmas in the Valley takes visitors back to 19th century holidaysDec 10, 2022 12:00 am - Visitors to the Volkening Heritage Farm and Merkle Cabin on Saturday were whisked back to a time of less holiday hustle and bustle during the Christmas in the Valley eve...
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Miniature cathedrals exhibit featured at Dunn Museum in LibertyvilleDec 09, 2022 5:01 am - A special exhibition titled "Color and Light: Charles Warner's Miniature Cathedrals" is running through Jan. 8, 2023, at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum in Libertyville. The...