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Chicago Design Museum: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: Design: Independently owned and operated: Chicago Great Western Railroad Depot Museum: Elizabeth: Jo Daviess: Northern Illinois: Railroad: Operated by the Elizabeth Historical Society, includes N-scale, HO-scale, and G-scale model railroad layouts: Chicago History Museum: Chicago: Cook ...
In July 2004, the Chicago Museum moved to a new location at 801 S. Adams Street in Chicago’s Greektown In 2009 the museum re-branded itself the National Hellenic Museum, with a new logo incorporating the Greek key design, and created a new mission statement: "Connecting generations through Greek history, culture, and art." In 2011 the museum ...
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;
The Chicago Maritime Museum is a maritime society and museum dedicated to the study and memorialization of Chicago's maritime traditions. [1] The museum's webpage asserts that Lake Michigan and the Chicago River were key factors in Chicago's growth toward status as a world-class city, and pays tribute to Congress for granting lake frontage in 1818 to the infant state of Illinois. [2]
Almost a decade later, in 1882, a group of nearly one thousand Greek immigrants resided in Chicago's Near North Side area. [5] The original Greektown district on Halsted Street began with the Jane Addams Hull House, which acted as a meeting point for the Greek population within Chicago and provided a basis for community to be built from 1889.
A bride was overcome with joy on her wedding day when her brother, a deployed Marine, made a surprise entrance. The night before the wedding, Sarah and her mother read a letter from Sarah's ...
On April 7, 1949, a group of distinguished citizens of Piraeus together with officers of the Navy and Merchant Marine, sharing a love for the sea and ships, gathered in the office of the then Minister Gerasimos Vassiliadis and signed the memorandum of association under the name "Maritime Museum Society and collection of national relics at sea ...
The National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History is a private non-profit museum, located in Sadorus, Illinois. It features ship models from around the world and throughout history. [1] Recent exhibits include a 27-foot model of the RMS Queen Mary made entirely out of one million toothpicks. The collection includes ship models from the movies ...