Preserving History's Future! The Downers Grove Park District Museum provides leisure and educational experiences for the community through collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting materials that explain and document the history of Downers Grove and its...

The Museums at Lisle Station Park provide visitors the opportunity to learn about the heritage and culture of 19th century Northern Illinois. Settled in 1832, the life of this agricultural community soon revolved around the railroad depot and the area became known as...

Gregg built a home to showcase his product. He lived in the home for approximately three years. He considered himself a dealer in patents as he invented sixteen different pieces of brick making apparatus. A truer sign of growth was the establishment here of a...

The Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, Illinois, covers 1,700 acres (6.9 Square kilometres) and is made up of gardens of various plant types and collections of trees from specific taxonomical and geographical areas. It includes native woodlands and a restored Illinois...

The Lemont Area Historical Society is located in the Old Stone Church, a national landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It also contains a rich collection of historical artifacts from Lemont and the surrounding area.

Hinsdale, Illinois, founded in 1873, is a quaint village steeped in a rich history. Only twenty miles west of the City of Chicago, Hinsdale retains its close-knit community appeal. Boasting grand Victorians, stately Tudors, sturdy farmhouses and charming cottages,...

The Illinois Aviation Museum at Bolingbrook is a consortium of individuals and groups dedicated to advancing aviation and engineering.

The DuPage Children’s Museum mission is to stimulate curiosity, creativity, thinking and problem solving in young children through: * self-directed, open-ended experiences * integration of the arts, science and math, and * the child-adult learning...

The Flagg Creek Heritage Society was originally founded in 1976 as the Flagg Creek Historical Society. The name was recently changed to the Flagg Creek Heritage Society. After years of waiting and a significant amount of effort, The IRS has granted us the coveted...

Since its founding the Museum received a collection of 128 wood carvings by 14 contemporary Lithuanian wood sculptors. The collection was assembled in Lithuania and transported to the U.S. by Romas Pukstys and represents a gift of the sculptors to the Lithuanians of...