Illinois Holocaust Museum
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri 10am–5pm; Sat, Sun 11am–4pm
$12, seniors and students $8, kids ages 5–11 $6, kids under 5 freeWhen a group of neo-Nazis planned to march in heavily Jewish Skokie in the 1970s, local Holocaust survivors banded together to create the educational group, Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois. After ten years of planning, the foundation opened a 65,000-square-foot Stanley Tigerman–designed museum in 2009. It houses more than 11,000 artifacts, several of which are on display in a 10,000-square-foot exhibit on the Holocaust and international occurrences of genocide.
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A Shallots Bistro
7016 Carpenter Rd between Lunt and Touhy Aves
B Maggiano's Little Italy—Old Orchard
Old Orchard Shopping Mall, 4999 Old Orchard Shopping Ctr
C EJ’s Place
10027 Skokie Blvd between Old Orchard and Old Glenview Rds
D Taboun Grill
8808 Gross Point Rd
E Da Jred
4901 Oakton St at Lamon Ave
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A Plato's Closet
9448 Skokie Blvd between Foster and Emerson Sts
B Zara
66 Old Orchard Center
C Westfield Old Orchard
66 Old Orchard Center
D Nordstrom
77 Old Orchard Shopping Center
E Martin + Osa
4999 Old Orchard Dr
F Lacoste, Old Orchard
Westfield Old Orchard, 34 Old Orchard Center
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