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The nearby Victory Monument honors the regiment for service during World War I. The armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1986, and was designated as a Chicago Landmark on September 9, 1998. It is one of nine landmark structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District. [2]
The Museum & Library has also hosted exhibitions by artists such as Steve Mumford, James Dietz, Don Stivers, and members of the Midwest Air Force Association. [31] Other exhibitions have included Don't Be a Dope!: Training Comics from World War II and Korea [32] and She's a Wow!: Women's Service Organizations in World War II. [33]
Naval Air Station Glenview or NAS Glenview was an operational U.S. Naval Air Station from 1937 to 1995. Located in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the air base primarily operated training aircraft as well as seaplanes on nearby Lake Michigan during World War II.
Victory spelled by sailors on the parade grounds at Great Lakes during World War I. At the start of 1917, just prior to the United States entry to World War I, Great Lakes was under the command of Captain William A. Moffett and had 39 permanent brick buildings, over 165 acres (67 ha), and about 1,500 Sailors. At the close of the war, there were ...
Chicago area: Art: Student-run gallery of Northwestern University, works of emerging and underrepresented artists from the Chicago area and the Midwest: Northbrook History Museum: Northbrook: Cook: Chicago area: Local history: Operated by the Northbrook Historical Society, changing exhibits of local history and re-created 1890s Shermerville ...
A map claiming to show the areas of the US that may be targeted in a nuclear war that originally circulated in 2015 is making the rounds again, amid the Russian war in Ukraine. The map indicates ...
Some entities in the Midwest have "Northwest" in their names for historical reasons, such as Northwestern University in Illinois. [9] One of the earliest late-19th-century uses of Midwest was in reference to Kansas and Nebraska to indicate that they were the civilized areas of the west. [10] Another term applied to the same region is Heartland ...
Camp Grant was a U.S. Army facility located in the southern outskirts of Rockford, Illinois named in honor of American Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant.Camp Grant covered an area of 5,600 acres during World War I and 3,200 acres during World War II, and was in operation from 1917 to 1946.