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Pages in category "Children's museums in Illinois" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Chicago Children's Museum: Chicago: Illinois: Located on Navy Pier on Lake Michigan; founded in 1982 Children's Discovery Museum Normal: Illinois: Founded in 1988. Children's Discovery Museum Augusta: Maine: Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert: Rancho Mirage: California: Founded in 1986. Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: San Jose ...
The zoo was started when a circus lion cub ended up on James T. Miller's farm around 1900, and was eventually given to the city of Bloomington. [3] The lion, later named "Big Jim", died on March 26, 1912. After Big Jim's death, funds were raised to construct the Koetthoefer Animal Building by Bloomington architect Arthur L. Pillsbury.
Miller Park Collection, McLean County Museum of History 40°28′04″N 89°00′17″W / 40.46778°N 89.00472°W / 40.46778; -89 This McLean County, Illinois location article is a stub .
The McLean County Museum of History is an AAM accredited [1] institution located in Bloomington, Illinois. It is the principal asset of the McLean County Historical Society, an Illinois nonprofit organization, which was founded in 1892 to study local history. The Museum moved into its current location in 1991.
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census showed the city had a population of 78,680, [ 5 ] making it the 13th-most populous city in Illinois and the fifth-most populous outside the Chicago metropolitan area . [ 6 ]
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This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.