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  1. May 15, 2024 · Citadel CEO Ken Griffin relocated from the Windy City to Miami two years ago, but his name now graces one of Chicago’s cultural landmarks thanks to a $125 million gift. Chicago’s Museum of ...

  2. 3 days ago · Field Museum, museum in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., established in 1893 as the Columbian Museum of Chicago with a gift from Marshall Field, from whom in 1905 it derived its present name. It was established to house the anthropological and biological collections of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. On Field’s death in 1906, he bequeathed ...

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  3. May 6, 2024 · Jingmai O’Connor unboxing the Chicago Archaeopteryx in August 2022. (Courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History) On Monday morning, more than 18 months later, the Field Museum repeated the unveiling, only this time with fewer hiccups and to greater fanfare.

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  4. Apr 30, 2024 · Naomi Blumberg. Museum of Science and Industry, science museum opened in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., in 1933 by the philanthropist-founder Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and Company. He had seen the Deutsches Museum in Munich and wished to locate a similarly interactive museum in the United States.

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  6. May 14, 2024 · MSI to rebrand as Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — named after big donor who fled Chicago Once the richest person in Illinois, Ken Griffin pulled out in 2022, months after ...

  7. May 14, 2024 · The name change was first announced in 2019 after a record $125 million donation from Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin. The museum, famously located within the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition's ...

  8. 5 days ago · I’m most familiar with Hal Higdon, Chicago-born author and journalist, from his famed free half- and full-marathon training plans; I’ve used them as the basis for every half or full I’ve run ...

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