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Name Category Location
 
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum
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Map | Navigate your way through the solar system with interactive and...
Museums / Galleries South Loop
 
Art Institute of Chicago
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Map | Come for the sterling collection of Impressionists and Old Masters...
Museums / Galleries South Loop
 
Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
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Map | Though many of the people who come here do so for research (the...
Museums / Galleries Englewood
 
Chicago Children's Museum
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Map | "Hands-on" is the operative concept for this brightly colored...
Museums / Galleries Near North
 
Chicago History Museum
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Map | The museum went through a major rehaul in late 2006 when it changed...
Museums / Galleries Lincoln Park
 
Clarke House
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Map | This Greek revival dates from 1836, making it Chicago's oldest...
Museums / Galleries Prairie Avenue
 
Cuneo Museum and Gardens
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Map | Samuel Insull, partner of Thomas Edison and founder of Commonwealth...
Museums / Galleries Vernon Hills
 
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
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Map | If you want to see art masterpieces but don't want to spend a...
Museums / Galleries Hyde Park
 
DuSable Museum of African American History
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Map | The DuSable is a colorful -- and haunting -- exploration of the...
Museums / Galleries Hyde Park
 
Ernest Hemingway Birthplace
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Map | Part of the literary legacy of Oak Park, this three-story turreted...
Museums / Galleries Oak Park
 
Ernest Hemingway Museum
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Map | How did the author's first 20 years in Oak Park impact his later...
Museums / Galleries Oak Park
 
Field Museum
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Map | More than 6 acres of exhibits fill this gigantic world-class...
Museums / Galleries South Loop
 
Glessner House
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Map | This fortresslike, Romanesque revival 1886 residence is the only...
Museums / Galleries Prairie Avenue
 
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
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Map | The redbrick Victorian Hull House was the birthplace of social...
Museums / Galleries University Village
 
Museum of Contemporary Art
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Map | A group of art patrons who felt the great Art Institute was unresponsive...
Museums / Galleries Near North
 
Museum of Contemporary Photography
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Map | "Contemporary" is defined here as anything after 1936. Over 7,000...
Museums / Galleries South Loop
 
Museum of Holography
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Map | Holography seems almost quaint in our age of 3-D digital renderings...
Museums / Galleries West Loop
 
Museum of Science and Industry
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Map | The beloved MSI is one of the most visited sites in Chicago...
Museums / Galleries Hyde Park
 
National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
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Map | The chimelike sounds of more than 58,000 imprinted dog tags hanging...
Museums / Galleries South Loop
 
Oriental Institute
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Map | This gem began with artifacts collected by University of Chicago...
Museums / Galleries Hyde Park
 
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
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Map | Walk among hundreds of Midwest species of butterflies and learn...
Museums / Galleries Lincoln Park
 
Polish Museum of America
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Map | Chicago has the largest Polish population of any city outside...
Museums / Galleries Wicker Park
 
Swedish American Museum Center
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Map | Though this tiny and welcoming museum does have changing exhibits...
Museums / Galleries Far North Side
 
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
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Map | Modern and contemporary art fans head out to this small museum...
Museums / Galleries Wicker Park


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