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KidsWork Children's Museum
This two-story children's museum brings children, families, and the community together to engage in fun, hands-on interactive play to nurture life-long...
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) Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
Established 35 years ago, the park has grown into a major collection of 28 works that is set within the wild prairie swales of the Governors State...
Blackberry Harvest Dollhouse Museum and Shoppe
18120 Dixie Highway, HomewoodThis museum grew out of owner Collette Renfro's dollhouse collection. Watch her make new miniatures or peer into log cabins, barns, apartments, pueblos...
Comments (1) Children's Museum in Oak Lawn
The 9,000-square-feet of exhibit space on two floors includes a treehouse where kids can get a bird's eye view of the entire second floor, Dream-a-Dream...
Comments (1) Exploration Station
459 N. Kennedy Drive, BourbonnaisExplore in 10,000 square feet of hands on learning. Change the tires on a car in the Wreck Resort Auto Center, serve sundaes in the Soda Shop,...
Historic Pullman Foundation Visitor Center
11141 S. Cottage Grove Ave., ChicagoIf your kids love BRIO, explore Pullman, Chicago's former railroad district. The visitor's center houses historic artifacts and memorabilia from train...
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
The University of Illinois at Chicago, ChicagoThis museum offers both self-guided and guided tours. Visitors will find expanded exhibits on the life of Jane Addams and other Settlement residents,...
Isle a la Cache Museum
501 E. 135th St. (Romeo Road), RomeovilleExplore exhibits of the French fur trade. Find out about a voyager's day on the river; examine a real birch bark canoe; see the trade items of...
Lemont Area Historical Society & Museum
306 Lemont St., LemontThis museum is in the Old Stone Church, a recruiting station for the Union Army during the Civil War. Inside see artifacts from the early 1800s, a...
