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The Adler Planetarium is a public museum in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to astronomy and astrophysics. It was founded in 1930 by local businessman Max Adler . Located on the northeastern tip of Northerly Island on Lake Michigan , the Adler Planetarium was the first planetarium in the United States.
Adler Planetarium, Chicago, 1930; ... Foreman State National Bank Building, ... Central Illinois Gas & Electric Building, 303 North Main, Rockford, 1929 ...
This list of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, has 89 entries including Eads Bridge, which spans into Missouri and which the National Park Service credits to Missouri's National Historic Landmark list. Also added are two sites that were once National Historic Landmarks before having their designations removed.
An aerial view of the Museum Campus Shedd Aquarium in the Museum Campus at dawn.. Museum Campus is a 57-acre (23 ha) park in Chicago along Lake Michigan.It encompasses five of the city's major attractions: the Adler Planetarium, America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium; the Field Museum of Natural History; Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League; and the ...
It is the site of the Adler Planetarium, the Huntington Bank Pavilion (a semi-temporary concert venue), the Northerly Island Natural Area, the 12th Street Beach and numerous art installations. Per its name, Northerly Island was constructed as an island, but is connected to the lakefront by a causeway at the northern end carrying Solidarity ...
The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument is an outdoor sculpture commemorating and depicting Nicolaus Copernicus, installed along Solidarity Drive outside Chicago's Adler Planetarium, in the U.S. state of Illinois. Bronislaw Koniuszy's replica of Bertel Thorvaldsen's original 1830 sculpture in Warsaw, Poland, was created, installed, and dedicated in ...
Adler Planetarium: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: Science: ... Illinois Museum of Natural History, campus of Illinois State University, Old Main building, from 1857-1877;
Adler Planetarium, Chicago; Cernan Earth and Space Center, Triton College, River Grove; Discovery Center Museum, Rockford; Illinois State University Planetarium, Normal; Lakeview Museum planetarium, Peoria (closed 2012) Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria; Staerkel Planetarium, Parkland College, Champaign