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  2. Chicago Portage - Wikipedia

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    Location. (historic dividing point) 3100 West 31st Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, US. Range. Valparaiso Moraine. Coordinates. 41°50′14″N 87°42′8″W  /  41.83722°N 87.70222°W  / 41.83722; -87.70222. The Chicago Portage was an ancient portage that connected the Great Lakes waterway system with the Mississippi River ...

  3. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Museum of Holography, Chicago [87] National Museum of Surveying, Springfield, closed in 2013. Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, closed in 2015. Old Barn Museum, Newark [88] Oliver Parks Telephone Museum, Springfield [89] Park Ridge Historical Society Museum, Park Ridge [90] The Peace Museum, Chicago.

  4. List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago

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    DuSable Museum of African American History. Haitian American Museum of Chicago. Irish American Heritage Center. Lithuanian Research and Studies Center. National Hellenic Museum. National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.

  5. Western saddle - Wikipedia

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    Western saddles are used for western riding and are the saddles used on working horses on cattle ranches throughout the United States, particularly in the west. They are the "cowboy" saddles familiar to movie viewers, rodeo fans, and those who have gone on trail rides at guest ranches. This saddle was designed to provide security and comfort to ...

  6. Chicago History Museum - Wikipedia

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    Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times.

  7. Union Stock Yards - Wikipedia

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    Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...

  8. Field Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia

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    September 5, 1975. The Field Museum of Natural History, founded by William Polson (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5][6] and its extensive ...

  9. Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Designated. November 1, 1995. The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), formerly known as the Museum of Science and Industry, is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago. It is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's ...