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The museum, at 104 S. Michigan Ave., will close July 27 and join forces with the Pritzker Military Archives Center.

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library is closing its downtown Chicago location and moving north to Kenosha County in Wisconsin, where its archives center is located, later this year. The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (PMML) announced the decision Wednesday in a news release. The PMML's Monroe Building, located at 104 South Michigan Avenue, will close its doors July 27 when its current exhibit, "War of 1812: Countering Peril on the High Seas and at Home," wraps up, according to the release. The PMML will merge its roughly 40,000 artifacts and more than 65,000 books ...

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library announced Wednesday it is closing its downtown location and moving to an archives center in Wisconsin later this year.

Gov. JB Pritzker's cousin, Jennifer Pritzker, opened the Pritzker Military Museum in 2003. It's now moving from the Loop to Somers, Wisconsin.

The museum’s Monroe Building, at Monroe Street and Michigan Avenue, will shut its doors July 27 when the current exhibit, “War of 1812: Countering Peril on...