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  2. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: History: Natural, social and cultural history of the Chicago River: Homepage: McDonald's No. 1 Store Museum: Des Plaines: Cook: Chicago area: Food: Recreation of the first McDonald's Restaurant: McHenry County Historical Society Museum: Union: McHenry: Northern ...

  3. List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;

  4. List of Chicago Landmarks - Wikipedia

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    Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...

  5. Chicago River - Wikipedia

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    The McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum is a 5-floor, 1,613-square-foot (149.9 m 2) museum that opened on June 10, 2006; it is named for Robert R. McCormick, formerly owner of the Chicago Tribune and president of the Chicago Sanitary District. The Robert R. McCormick Foundation was the major donor that helped meet the $950,000 cost to ...

  6. River Grove, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    River Grove is a village in Leyden Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,612 at the 2020 census. The population was 10,612 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area .

  7. DuSable Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum is a 5-floor, 1,613-square-foot (149.9 m 2) museum that opened on June 10, 2006; it is named for Robert R. McCormick, formerly owner of the Chicago Tribune and president of the Chicago Sanitary District. [33]

  8. McCormick family - Wikipedia

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    The McCormick family of Chicago and Virginia is an American family of Scottish and Scotch-Irish descent that attained prominence and fortune starting with the invention of the McCormick Reaper, a machine that revolutionized agriculture and established the modern grain trade by beginning the mechanization of the harvesting of grain.

  9. The Museum of the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) and the ...

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    The museum is located in a former drill hall built for the Royal Scots in 1900. [1] The building was re-opened following refurbishment, as the Royal Scots Museum, by the Princess Royal on 27 June 1991. [2] The Royal Regiment of Scotland has been building its own collection since it was formed in 2006. [3]