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2. Adler Planetarium - Wikipedia

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   Adler Planetarium

3. Museum Campus - Wikipedia

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   Museum Campus is a 57-acre (23 ha) park in Chicago facing Lake Michigan in Grant Park. 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. It is adjacent to Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League; and ...

4. Nicolaus Copernicus Monument (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. John J. Glessner House - Wikipedia

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   The John J. Glessner House, operated as the Glessner House, is an architecturally important 19th-century residence located at 1800 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Built during the Gilded Age, it was designed in 1885–1886 by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and completed in late 1887. The property was designated a Chicago Landmark on ...

6. Man Enters the Cosmos - Wikipedia

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   Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture is a functional bowstring equatorial sundial created in 1980 measuring approximately 13 feet (4.0 m). [2][3] The sundial was formerly located ...

7. Dearborn Observatory - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago Astronomical Society did not transfer ownership to Northwestern University until 1929, however. [2] In 1911 the original tube and mounting were replaced, and eventually donated to Adler Planetarium in 1929 by the Chicago Astronomical Society. [2]

8. Staerkel Planetarium - Wikipedia

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   Opened. 1987 [1] Affiliation. Parkland College. Website. www .parkland .edu /planetarium. The William M. Staerkel Planetarium is a planetarium at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois. [2] It is the second largest planetarium in the state, the largest being the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, and has the first Carl Zeiss M1015 opto-mechanical ...

9. Philip Fox (astronomer) - Wikipedia

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   Colonel. Battles/wars. Spanish–American War. World War I. World War II. Other work. Astronomer. Philip Fox (March 7, 1878 – July 21, 1944) was an American astronomer and an officer in the U.S. Army. He was the first director of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, the first planetarium in the western hemisphere.