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Attractions
Rare Beauty Take History
to Heart
Voted one of the Seven
Wonders of Illinois, the
Museums and Bahá’í House of Worship The renowned Illinois
is one of only eight Holocaust Museum strives
architectural landmarks
continental temples, the to preserve the memories
dot the landscape only one in North America, of those lost in the
alongside galleries, and the largest and oldest Holocaust while teaching
surviving Bahá’í temple. everyone about the need to
gardens and lakefront Visitors marvel at its walls fight hatred, indifference
parks. Thrill to the array of lace-like ornamentation and genocide. Even the
and 135-foot dome which architecture incorporates
of attractions on began construction in historical and emotional
Chicago’s North Shore. 1922, as well as the symbolism that is as
elegant surrounding beautiful as it is poignant.
Families, sports lovers gardens and reflecting The Take a Stand Center
and cultural connoisseurs pools. A new Welcome uses groundbreaking
Center hosts more than technology allowing visitors
all find ways to play. 250,000 people per year. to interact with speaking
holographic images of
Holocaust survivors.
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