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DuPage County Historical Museum
The museum offers guided tours, summer camps and birthday parties. Programs are offered each month for all ages. The HO gauge model train display runs...
Events (4) Naper Settlement
This outdoor living history museum is a place where the stories and people of our past come alive through award-winning family-friendly exhibits, special...
Events (4) Chicago History Museum
The Chicago History Museum offers a permanent exhibition Sensing Chicago where children can explore the city's history through their five senses. Kids...
Events (3) Cantigny Park
Visit the First Division military museum, which takes visitors on an interactive tours of the nation's wars. Life-size soldiers demonstrate what life...
Events (11) Buckley Homestead
3606 Belshaw Road, Lowell, Ind.Living history museum on a 19th-century farm homestead. Features several historical buildings including a 1900s one-room schoolhouse and an 1850s pioneer...
Events (1) Garfield Farm Museum
This museum offers a variety of educational, family, and entertainment events focusing on 1840s farm and inn history.
Events (1) Arlington Heights Historical Museum
110-112 W. Fremont St., Arlington HeightsThe five-building complex and their contents tell the story of Arlington Heights over the last 150 years. The Muller Victorian and 1908 Banta...
Events (1) Elmhurst Historical Museum
Enjoy family-friendly exhibits and weekly activity programs at this museum in Elmhurst's historic Glos Mansion. Summer Fun and Games on Tuesdays. ...
Events (1) Joliet Area Historical Museum
204 N. Ottawa St., JolietStart your visit in the interactive Route 66 Experience exhibit and then tour the permanent exhibit, The Soaring Achievements of John C. Houbolt, to...
Events (1) McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum
The McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum celebrates Chicago's river and world-famous movable bridges by shining light on their significance...
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