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According to The New York Times, Behring's gift was also then criticized in the museum world, as some museum professionals charged that he had been given too much power to "dictate the nature and content of the museum's exhibitions." [34] According to then-Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence Small, "A gift of this magnitude is unprecedented. We are ...
A man who calls himself "pro-life Spiderman" scaled a nearly 600-foot building in Chicago to raise money for an anti-abortion organization.
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Wiener was arrested in Manhattan December 2016 and charged with conspiring with international smuggling and trafficking looted objects. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Her gallery sold art to clients including the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Los Angeles County Museum , Art Institute of Chicago and National Gallery of Australia .
Man charged for killing Chicago cop The Chicago Police Department has announced charges against a 23-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a police officer. The announcement comes just days after ...
A settlement was reached in 2006, in which the museum received a $3.9 million payment, but was forced to vacate the property. It moved across the state line to a new site with a 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m 2) building in Zion, Illinois where it became the Russell Military Museum.
The Edwards County Sheriff's Office were called to the home on the 1100 block of County Road 600 in Albion, Ill. at around 12:14 p.m. when they made the disturbing find, the Illinois State Police ...
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. [1] Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. [ 2 ] Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012, behind New York and California .