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Federal regulations concerning the exhibition and study of Native American remains and sacred artifacts were tightened, to bring teeth and clarity to a set of rules that languished for decades.
CHICAGO -- If you stop by Chicago's Field Museum right now and find yourself in the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest Coast and Arctic Peoples, or the Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas, you will notice something about the display cases: Several are covered up. That in itself is not unusual — who hasn’t been to a museum and seen a display case displaying nothing? What’s unusual is the ...
If you stop by the Field Museum right now and find yourself in the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest Coast and Arctic Peoples, or the Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas, you will notice something about the display cases: Several are covered up. That in itself is not unusual — who hasn’t been to a museum and seen a display case displaying nothing? What’s unusual is the reason: On Jan. ...
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Nathan Leopold was not only a notorious Chicago child killer but a noted amateur ornithologist who donated some of his taxidermy birds to the Elgin Public Museum in the 1920s.
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Elgin Public Museum admissions were up 14.5% in 2022 and the big return of school field trips increased education program revenues by 161%, Director Sharry Blazier said.