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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 ...
Kashmir Hill was born and raised in Florida, and earned degrees from Duke University and New York University where she studied journalism. [citation needed] Prior to joining the New York Times in 2019 Hill wrote for Gizmodo Media Group, Fusion magazine, Forbes, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post.
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The Dickson Mounds Museum is a museum erected on the site in 1972 by the U.S. state of Illinois; it describes the life cycles and culture of Native Americans living in the Illinois River valley over a period of 12,000 years since the last ice age. The museum is part of the Illinois State Museum system. [5]
The museum itself opened in the lodge in 1939 [2] with a collection started by Dr. John Hauberg, a Rock Island philanthropist. The museum interprets the story of the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes that lived in the area in a village called the Saukenuk. [3] It was considered one of the largest Native American villages in North America. [2] The ...
The Center has been associated with years of excavation at the Koster Site in Greene County, Illinois. Researchers have uncovered evidence of more than 7,000 years of human habitation, back to the Early Archaic period (8000 BC to 1000 BC). The center is located about 90 minutes north of St. Louis and the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois.
The Black Hawk State Historic Site, in Rock Island, Illinois, is adjacent to the historic site of the village of Saukenuk, the home of a band of Native Americans of the Sauk nation. It includes the John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life. The state park is located on a 150 feet (50 m) bluff overlooking the Rock River in western