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Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Pritzker Military Museum & Library, a museum in Illinois
Pritzker Military Museum & Library, a museum in IllinoisSgt. 1st Class Chuck Burden, U.S. Army · Public domain
Pritzker Military Museum & Library, a museum in Illinois
Sgt. 1st Class Chuck Burden, U.S. Army · Public domain
Pritzker Military Museum & Library, a museum in Illinois
Sgt. 1st Class Chuck Burden, U.S. Army · Public domain
Pritzker Military Museum & Library, a museum in Illinois
Pritzker Military Museum and Library · Public domain
Pritzker Military Museum & Library, a museum in Illinois
Sgt. 1st Class Chuck Burden, U.S. Army · Public domain
Pritzker Military Museum & Library, a museum in Illinois
Chief Petty Officer Joshua Treadwell · Public domain

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Pritzker Military Museum & Library is a museum in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 184 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Large Interior Form, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic Route 66 runs past it. 16 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (formerly Pritzker Military Library) is a non-profit museum and research library for the study of military history located in a state-of-the art facility in Kenosha, WI. The institution was founded in 2003, and its specialist collections include material relating to Winston Churchill and war-related sheet music.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 2003.

Wikidata Q588030, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Colonel IL James N Pritzker Library for the Citizen Soldier

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.88062, -87.62466

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Parks
Attractions
Gardens
  • Pritzker Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Light Plate: 0.2 mi
  • Lurie Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Dark Plate: 0.2 mi
  • Sir Georg Solti Garden: 0.2 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Picnic sites
  • Picnic Grove C: 0.4 mi
  • Picnic Grove B: 0.4 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 2: 2.4 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 3: 2.5 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 4: 2.6 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches: 57
Peaks: 16
  • Soldier Field Sledding Hill: 1.6 mi
  • Mount Bridgeport: 2.9 mi
  • Horner Park Hill: 6.6 mi
  • Obama Center Sled Hill: 7.0 mi
  • Players Hill: 7.4 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 8.1 mi
Cliffs: 1
Rest areas: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pritzker Military Museum & Library. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount TrashmoreNNW 337°204 m10.7 mi
Players HillW 267°187 m7.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3816:23

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262938485868747467544331

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Northerly IS, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/10958109386

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