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Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago is a children's museum in Glenview, Illinois that provides a hands-on learning laboratory for children ages birth to 8. It is named for philanthropist Dolores Kohl, daughter of the founder of Kohl’s department stores, who founded the museum through her education foundation in 1985. [ 1 ]
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.
Bronzeville Children's Museum is a museum in the Calumet Heights community area of the South Side of Chicago. It is the first and only African American children's museum in the United States. Founded in 1998, the museum moved to its current location at 9301 South Stony Island Avenue in the Pill Hill neighborhood in 2008.
The Chicago Children's Museum is located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1982 by The Junior League of Chicago who were responding to programming cutbacks in the Chicago Public Schools .
Wonder Works is a children's museum, a non-profit corporation established in 2002, located in the village of Oak Park, Illinois. [1] It is the successor to the Children's Museum of Oak Park, established in 1993. The museum is dedicated to the principle of offering a fun, largely self-directed playing and learning place for children.
In 2022, the Children’s Museum of Idaho received nearly 100,000 visitors from 49 states: “Children learn best by seeing, touching and doing.”
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 ...
An Illinois youth lockup is "no place for children," argued a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in June. A new ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois analysis of documents ...