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  2. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    National Veterans Art Museum: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: Art: Art produced by veterans: Naval Air Station Glenview Museum: Glenview: Cook: Chicago area: Aviation: Aviation and the history of Naval Air Station Glenview, operated by the Glenview Hangar One Foundation: Homepage: Nehring Gallery: DeKalb: DeKalb: Northern Illinois: Culture

  3. List of museums focused on African Americans - Wikipedia

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    African American Historical and Cultural Museum Waterloo Iowa 1997 A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum: Chicago: Illinois: 1995 [8] Africa Center, The: New York City New York: 1984 [9] [a] African American Civil War Memorial Museum: Washington: D.C. 1999 [13] African-American Research Library and Cultural Center: Fort Lauderdale: Florida ...

  4. Richmond Barthé - Wikipedia

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    In 1942, he had an exhibition of 20 works of art at the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago. [26] The retrospective which included works from private collections shown for the first time, Richmond Barthé: The Seeker was the inaugural exhibition of the African American Galleries at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi ...

  5. DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center - Wikipedia

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    The museum also serves as the city's primary memorial to du Sable. [4] Highlights of its collection include the desk of activist Ida B. Wells, the violin of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, [21] and the Charles Dawson Papers. [22] The museum has a collection of 13,000 artifacts, books, photographs, art objects, and memorabilia. [5]

  6. Chicago Cultural Center - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Cultural Center underwent an extensive [4] renovation during 2021–2022 [5] with the goal of unearthing the original beauty of the building. The detailed restoration of the art glass dome and decorative finishes in the Grand Army of the Republic rooms, a Civil War memorial, was made possible by a grant of services valued at over $15 million to the City of Chicago.

  7. Charles Sebree - Wikipedia

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    Chicago's black arts movement came to rival the vibrancy seen in New York's Harlem Renaissance, and Sebree benefited from connections with artists such as Margaret Taylor-Burroughs and Eldzier Cortor, as well as the network of support created through affiliations with such institutions as the South Side Community Arts Center and the Art Institute.

  8. Archibald Motley - Wikipedia

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    Archibald John Motley, Jr. (October 7, 1891 – January 16, 1981), [1] was an American visual artist. Motley is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, a time in which African-American art reached new heights not just ...

  9. Harlem Avenue - Wikipedia

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    Harlem Avenue is a major north–south street located in Chicago and its west, southwest, and northwest suburbs. It stretches from Glenview Road in Glenview to the intersection of East South Street and South Drecksler Road in Peotone , where it diverges into Illinois Route 50 .