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Attractions
One-of-a-Kind A Collector’s
Wonder Showcase
From museums and One of only seven in the The Halim Time & Glass
world and the only one in Museum brings to
architectural landmarks North America, the Bahá’í Evanston the world’s first
to spectacular art House of Worship is the museum dedicated solely
largest and the oldest to clocks and stained
galleries, public gardens surviving Bahá’í House of glass. The museum
and lakefront parks, Worship. Voted one of the features 1,100 clocks from
Seven Wonders of Illinois, around the globe and 80
Chicago’s North Shore
visitors stand in awe stained glass pieces—
offers a variety of viewing its walls of lace- some as tall as 25 feet—in
attractions for families, like ornamentation and a newly constructed five-
its 135-foot dome. story building. Some
sports lovers and the clocks’ screws are so
discerning cultural small that workers must
use a microscope to
connoisseur. wind them!
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