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Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Category: Monument + Museum + Sightseeing + Tours
2430 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL 60618
773.755.5100


Built into the rise of an ancient sand dune -- once the shoreline of Lake Michigan -- Chicagos newest museum bills itself as an environmental museum for the 21st century. While that might sound fairly dull, most of the e...   more

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The Smart Museum of Art
Category: Arts + Monument + Museum
5550 S. Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.0200


The University of Chicagos fine arts museum looks rather modest, but it packs a lot of talent into a compact space. Its permanent collection of more than 7,000 paintings and sculptures spans Western and Eastern civilizat...   more

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Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Category: Monument + Museum
800 S. Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60603
312.413.5353


Three years after the Haymarket Riot, a young woman named Jane Addams bought an old mansion on Halsted Street that had been built in 1856 as a country home but was now surrounded by the shanties of the immigrant poor. He...   more

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Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Category: Arts + Monument + Museum
1852 W. 19th St, Chicago, IL 60616
312.738.1503


This sparkling site, the largest Latino museum in the country, is half art museum, half cultural exploration. After the big downtown museums, this is the one you shouldn't miss. Galleries house impressive collections of ...   more

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Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
Category: Monument + Museum
6500 S Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture was started in 1966 by the Balzekas family as a place to display and preserve authentic Lithuanian antiques and culture for everyone to share. Balzekas moved to its present location ...   more

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National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
Category: Arts + Monument + Museum + Sightseeing + Tours
1801 S. Indiana Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
312.326.0270


The chimelike sounds of more than 58,000 imprinted dog tags hanging from the ceiling entranceway are a melancholy memorial to the soldiers who lost their lives in the unpopular war. Take in the visual journal of the expe...   more

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Museum of Contemporary Photography
Category: Monument + Museum
600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
312.344.7104


29/365. Lunchtime exhibition
Contemporary is defined here as anything after 1959 -- the date of Robert Frank's seminal work The Americans, which anchors the museum. Over 4,000 works from American-born and American-resident photographers make this an...   more

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Spertus Museum
Category: Monument + Museum
618 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60661
312.322.1747


Lunchtime Museum Visit
This museum addresses an intellectual puzzle: what does it mean to be Jewish in the modern world? Contemporary and traditional art and ritual objects illustrate daily life; a sobering Holocaust memorial with many photos ...   more

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Polish Museum of America
Category: Monument + Museum
984 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
773.384.3352


Chicago has the largest Polish population of any city outside Warsaw, and this museum in Ukranian Village, just south of Wicker Park, celebrates that fact. Take a trip to the old country by strolling through exhibits of ...   more

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DuSable Museum of African-American History
Category: Monument + Museum
740 E. 56th Place, Chicago, IL 60619
773.947.0600


The DuSable Museum is a repository of the history, art, and artifacts pertaining to the African-American experience and culture. Named for Chicagos first permanent settler, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a French-Canadian...   more

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