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enjoyillinois.com i It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced.

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Illinois State Memorials are located in Ridge in Springfield. The Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial is situated along the in Marseilles. Images (clockwise from top left): World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial, Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Vietnam Veterans Annual Vigil), Illinois Veterans Memorial, State Historic Site (Illinois Department of Natural Resources), Illinois Memorial, Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial, Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site (Illinois Office of Tourism), Illinois Memorial

Every effort was made to ensure the accuracy of information in this guide. Please call ahead to verify or visit enjoyillinois.com for the most up-to-date information. This project was partially funded by a from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity/Office of Tourism. 12/2019 10,000 What’s Inside

2 Honoring Veterans Annual events for veterans and for celebrating veterans

3 Network Connecting veterans with their memorials 4 Historic Forts Experience history up close at recreated forts and historic sites 6 Remembering the Fallen National and state provide solemn places for reflection

is proud to be home to more than 725,000 8 Veterans Memorials Illinois veterans and three active military bases. Cities and towns across the state honor We are forever indebted to Illinois’ service members and their veterans through memorials, , and equipment displays families for their courage and sacrifice. We celebrate our heroes and support our veterans through memorials, monuments, and 13 Birthplace of the G.I. Bill cemeteries to remember the fallen; events to benefit the brave; A grassroots effort in the city of Salem brought and historic forts and museums that provide a glimpse into the monumental changes for World War II veterans daily life of soldiers. 19 Blue Star Memorial Highways There are many ways to gain a better understanding of the Establishing roadside gardens to honor service wars and conflicts that have impacted Illinois, the nation, members and Gold Star Families and the world. The U-505 Submarine exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in takes you on a journey 25 The Golden Thirteen These brave men made history as the first through a German submarine, whose capture helped break African American commissioned officers in top-secret codes used by Germany during World War II. The the U.S. Navy State Veterans Memorials at in Springfield and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in 29 Hero Street USA Skokie provide places for reflection on the human cost of war. A historic Mexican American The World War II Reenactment at the Midway Village Museum neighborhood is recognized for its in Rockford is one of the nation’s largest, offering a residents’ service and sacrifice compelling firsthand experience of life on the front lines. The Rock Island Arsenal Museum in Rock Island is the second oldest 36 Museums Displays and exhibits pay tribute to museum administered by the Army and houses the heroism, bravery, and sacrifice of an extensive small arms collection. Galena was once home to military veterans nine Civil War generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. Experience a Civil War battlefield and tour Grant’s historic home during the 39 Grand Army of town’s annual reenactment along the Galena River. In southern the Republic Illinois, Murphysboro celebrates the life of Civil War General This Civil War Union veterans John A. Logan with a museum dedicated to conveying his story. group was formed in Illinois The legacy of Illinois’ heroes lives on through exhibits and reenactments in every corner of the state. 43 Blue Star Museums A summer museum program We hope this guide will inspire you to get out and experience the benefiting active duty military courage and bravery of those who helped preserve our nation’s and their families freedoms and the freedoms of others. Along the way, we hope Generally Speaking, you discover a little bit more about the great state of Illinois and all 44 it has to offer. Visit enjoyillinois.com to assist in your journey. Galena Boasts the Most! Nine Civil War Generals once called Galena home including Ulysses S. Grant To all those who have served, continue to serve, and to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice: Thank You. Image top: Rock Island Arsenal Image bottom: Western Illinois Museum

enjoyillinois.com 1 HONORING VETERANS EVENTS FOR VETERANS AND FOR CELEBRATING VETERANS

Grant’s Home Front & Reenactment | Galena Country Tourism | Troy Walsh

APRIL Memorial Day Service Veterans Honor Flight National Gathering (Saturday of Memorial Day of of American Indian Grant’s Home Front & weekend) Spring Flight Veterans Reenactment Mound City Marion  veteranshonorflight.org Wheaton  cantigny.org Galena moundcitynationalcemetery.org tristatehistoricalpresentations. Momence Day blogspot.com National “Run for the (Second weekend) AUGUST Wall” Motorcycle Ride Momence 5K Run As One (only Illinois stop) momenceheritageday.org and Marion  www.marion.va.gov Mt. Vernon  rftw.us Show Illinois Motorcycle Chicago  choosechicago.com LCpl. J. Kyle Price Civil War Days  Freedom Run Memorial Ride Naperville napersettlement.org (Third Saturday) Freedom Run 5K East Moline  freedomrun5k.org Mt. Vernon Run the Rock 5K/10K + Morris jkpmemorialfoundation middleeastconflictswall.org America’s Kids Run Galesburg Heritage Rock Island Lincoln Days & Days & Civil War MAY rockisland.armymwr.com Civil War Reenactment Reenactment  Arlington Heights’ Vietnam Veterans (First Saturday & Sunday) Galesburg gogalesburg.com Pittsfield pikelincoln.com Memorial Day Annual Vigil Heroes at Heartland Parade & Ceremony Springfield Nebo  heroesatheartland.us Arlington Heights  ahpd.org Vietnam Veterans Annual Vigil Rendezvous Illinois State Fair Prairie du Rocher City of Aurora fortdechartres.us Veterans and Gold Memorial Day Parade JUNE Star Families Day Aurora  aurora-il.org Annual Veterans’ Springfield JULY www2.illinois.gov/statefair Memorial Day Parade Appreciation Event Chicago  choosechicago.com (Last Saturday) Lincoln’s Festival on Bourbonnais Route 66 & Civil War SEPTEMBER Memorial Day Parade bourbonnaisfriendshipfestival.com Reenactment Chill Will Veterans 5K with Festival Bloomington  lincolnsfestival.net Colona World War II Recreated Chicago  chillwillvets.org Dixon ColonaMemorialDayFestival Lombard’s Civil War WWIIRecreatedDixonIL Songs 4 Soldiers Encampment Benefit Concert VA2K Walk & Roll Lombard  lombardhistory.org Marion  www.marion.va.gov Elgin Civil War Columbia  songs4soldiersstl.org Experience Fourth of July at Veterans Honor Flight Elgin  cityofelgin.org World War II Days Wyman Park Lockport  lockportpark.org of Southern Illinois Sullivan  sullivanil.us Spring Flight Marion  veteranshonorflight.org 2 Veterans Honor Flight Shadows of the of Southern Illinois Blue and Gray Fall Flight Princeton  shadowsbluegray.com Marion  veteranshonorflight.org Veterans on Parade NOVEMBER Marion  cityofmarionil.gov Veterans Day Parade World War II Days Anna  southernmostillinois.com Rockford  midwayvillage.com City of Aurora Veterans’ Charity Ride Veterans Day Parade Shorewood  conradshd.com Aurora  aurora-il.org Revolutionary War Belleville Reenactment & Veterans Day Parade Grand Encampment Belleville  belleville.net Wheaton  cantigny.org Brookfield Zoo Veterans Day Celebration OCTOBER Brookfield czs.org/veteransday Carpentersville’s UIC’s Veterans Day HONOR FLIGHT NETWORK Civil War Reenactment 3K Walk/5K Run Carpentersville Chicago  today.uic.edu What began as separate grassroots efforts, by a retired stanfordsbattery.org Veterans Day Air Force captain in and the son of a World War II Celebration in to veterans to view their Encampment Homer Glen  homerglenil.org memorials in , D.C., combined in 2007 to (Third Saturday & Sunday) establish The Honor Flight Network. Regional Honor Metropolis O’Charley’s 5K on Flight Hubs across the nation offer chartered flights metropolistourism.com the Runway Marion  veteranshonorflight.org connecting veterans, at no cost to them, with their HOOAH Deer Hunt memorials in the nation’s capital. Illinois is home to for Heroes Fort de Chartres eight hubs that fly veterans of World War II, Korea, and Mt. Vernon Winter Rendezvous & Vietnam to experience their memorials. hooahdeerhuntforheroes.com Woodswalk Prairie du Rocher Fort de Chartres fortdechartres.us French & Indian War GREAT RIVER HONOR FLIGHT wgem.com/honorflight Encampment & DECEMBER Competition Prairie du Rocher Christmas at the Fort GREATER PEORIA HONOR FLIGHT fortdechartres.us Elizabeth  appleriverfort.org greaterpeoriahonorflight.org

HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO honorflightchicago.org

HONOR FLIGHT OF THE honorflightqc.org

LAKE COUNTY HONOR FLIGHT lakecountyhonorflight.org

LAND OF LINCOLN HONOR FLIGHT landoflincolnhonorflight.org

VETERANS HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS veteranshonorflight.org

VNC HONOR FLIGHT OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN ILLINOIS veteransnetworkcommittee.com Aurora Area CVB Area CVB Aurora James Cardis | Aurora Veterans Day Parade enjoyillinois.com 3 HISTORIC FORTS

Fort de Chartres State Historic Site

Eversgerd’s Civil War Fort Memorial Plaque Fort Dixon & Lincoln 6521 Shoal Creek Road  Bartelso 360 N. Avenue  Chicago Presidents Park, Lincoln Statue Drive  Dixon 618-523-4749  illinoisouth.org (E. & N. Michigan Avenue) 815-284-1134  www2.illinois.gov/dnrhistoric Experience an exact replica of a Civil War fort This area, in what is now downtown Chicago, Positioned on the banks of the Rock River, complete with jail, one room home, livery, was first utilized by Native Americans and Fort Dixon was established by the military and log cabins. Be sure to see the display of later the U.S. military. Situated at the mouth of during the War in 1832. The fort buildings and area churches in miniature. Call the , this land was strategically consisted of a militia earthwork with two ahead to schedule your visit as viewings are important and served as a western garrison blockhouses. served as a by appointment. after the military built a fortification on this site. captain at Fort Dixon during the war. It is also Initially constructed in 1803, it was burned in where he met and Zachary Fort Defiance Park 1812, and then rebuilt in 1816. By 1870, only a Taylor for the first time. few of the fort’s buildings were intact and the Fort Defiance Road Cairo Today, a small park encompasses the area of 1871 destroyed what 800-248-4373 along the river that once contained the fort. remained. A brass plaque marks the location Within the park is the Old Settlers’ , Fort Defiance, known as Camp Defiance of Fort Dearborn on Michigan Avenue, while built in 1894 and later moved to the site, and the during the Civil War, was a military fortification. other markers on the ground nearby outline Lincoln Monument. The monument consists of Although the fort is long gone, the site offers the fort’s footprint. a full-length statue of Abraham Lincoln, the only views of the confluence of the Ohio and rivers from the observation tower. known statue portraying him as a soldier. This location is also the lowest point in elevation in the state. State Historic Site 311 E. Myrtle Street  Elizabeth 815-858-2028  appleriverfort.org On June 24, 1832, a small company of Illinois militia and their families successfully defended a hastily-built fort against a superior force of warriors led by the great Sauk tribal leader known as Black Hawk. Today, the Apple River Fort State Historic Site, a landmark, features a reconstruction of the fort modeled upon findings of a 1995 archaeological dig. Due to its significance, the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The fort is open for self-guided tours. Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources Apple River Fort State Historic Site

4 Fort State Historic Site 4372 Park Road  Ellis Grove 618-859-3741  www2.illinois.gov/dnrhistoric This site preserves the earthen remains of Fort Kaskaskia, including long forming a rough square with bastions at the corners. Constructed by the French circa 1759 to defend the town of Kaskaskia, the small fort once contained a three-room barracks and a kitchen. The fort was periodically occupied by French or U.S. troops until 1807 and sheltered local settlers during the . Situated on a grassy bluff overlooking the , take in the sweeping view of the waterway and Kaskaskia Island. Picnic shelters with tables and grills, playgrounds, and campground are available. A footpath leads to the Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site, located at the bottom of the bluff. Fort Dearborn Memorial Plaque

Fort Massac State Park the fort’s reproduced stone buildings, offers  Fort de Chartres 1308 E. 5th Street Metropolis souvenirs, snack foods, and reproductions of  State Historic Site 618-524-4712 www.dnr.illinois.gov items that might have been found in 18th-century 1350 State Route 155  Prairie du Rocher Illinois. Recreational facilities include a day-use Experience the scenic splendor of southern (4 miles west of Prairie du Rocher) area with a picnic shelter and horseshoe pits. Illinois at Illinois’ first state park! Overlooking 618-859-3741  fortdechartres.us the mighty from the southern tip of Illinois, Fort Massac is a captivating reminder of Three successive forts named “de Chartres” were built by the French during their 18th- Fort Edwards Memorial days gone by, a fascinating excursion through N. 3rd Street & Fort Edwards Drive  century occupation of what is today the entire course of American history, and warsawilparks.com the perfect place to relax in soothing natural Illinois. The third fort, erected in the 1750s at this surroundings. This 1,500-acre park is perfect for location, was a massive square stone structure A tall obelisk along the banks of the Mississippi picnics, camping, hiking, fishing, boating, disc enclosing six buildings, including a still-standing River marks the spot were Fort Edwards once golf and offers seasonal hunting programs. Tour powder magazine that may be the oldest stood. The fort was completed in 1817, having the visitor center and then venture outside to building in Illinois. been established due to local fears arising from the War of 1812. It was occupied by the U.S. view the replica 1802 fort. Walk through an imaginative reconstruction of military until 1824 and then went on to be utilized the third Fort de Chartres, with portions built on for various purposes including a trading post. original foundations. The museum is open daily. A trading post, housed in a structure resembling Fort Massac State Park

enjoyillinois.com 5 REMEMBERING THE FALLEN

Rock Island National Cemetery | Rock Island Arsenal

uring the Civil War, the magnitude of Danville National Cemetery Fort Sheridan National Cemetery Dsoldiers who died in battle brought 1900 E. Main Street  Danville Vatner Road  Fort Sheridan about a needed change to the Army’s burial 217-554-4550  www.cem.va.gov 224-610-7296  www.cem.va.gov practices. It was during this war on July Open daily dawn to dusk Open daily dawn to dusk 17, 1862, that President Abraham Lincoln authorized the establishment of national The original cemetery was established for Named after Civil War General Philip Henry cemeteries “... for the soldiers who shall die the Danville Branch of the National Home Sheridan, Fort Sheridan served as an active in the service of the country.” Today, there are for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, with its first U.S. Army post from 1887 to 1993. Following 141 national cemeteries in the U.S., of which 14 interment in 1899. Burials were reinterred in the the closure of Fort Sheridan, a 110-acre Historic were established during the Civil War. These current cemetery in 1901. Designated a national District was established with the remaining cemeteries honor soldiers and sailors from all cemetery in 1973, the graves form concentric buildings repurposed for community use and backgrounds and ranks who selflessly served circles radiating from the Soldier’s Monument. housing. A U.S. Army Reserve base currently their country. Listed here are the cemeteries Medal of Honor recipient First Lieutenant Morton utilizes 90 acres of the original grounds. A. Read is buried here and is credited with in Illinois that are administered by the U.S. Established in 1889, the site’s cemetery was laid capturing the flag of the 1st Texas Infantry during Department of Veterans Affairs National out in an oval pattern and contains the burials of the Civil War at the Battle of Station. Cemetery Administration, with the exception more than 2,000 soldiers from the Civil War to of Sunset Cemetery, the only state veterans . During World War II, Fort Sheridan was cemetery in Illinois. Abraham Lincoln an administrative center for camps National Cemetery in Illinois, , and Michigan. Subsequently, 20953 W. Hoff Road  Elwood nine German prisoners of war are buried here. NATIONAL CEMETERIES 815-423-9958  www.cem.va.gov Army Chaplain Major Edward J. Vattman, a Open daily dawn to dusk close friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, is interred near the cemetery’s entrance. Alton National Cemetery Located on the former grounds of the Joliet 600 Pearl Street  Alton Army Ammunition Plant, the Abraham Lincoln 314-845-8320  www.cem.va.gov National Cemetery was dedicated in 1999 as Mound City National Cemetery Open daily dawn to dusk the 117th national cemetery. It is named after the 141 State Route 37  Mound City 618-748-9107  moundcitynationalcemetery.org Civil War soldiers were interred at the Alton City 16th president of the United States and founder Open daily dawn to dusk Cemetery in an area set aside for those who of the national cemeteries. The memorial walk perished in the war. In the 1870s, the graves commemorates service members of 20th century Designated in 1864, Mound City is one of the were marked with white marble headstones. wars on 15 memorials. An 18-foot granite obelisk, country’s oldest national cemeteries. It contains It wasn’t until 1940 that the city of Alton crowned by a bronze eagle with outstretched the graves of more than 8,000 soldiers. Located transferred this portion of the cemetery to wings, memorializes the 2,403 Americans who at the confluence of major rivers, Mound City the U.S. Army. The remaining soldiers buried died in the surprise attack on . The was a strategic location during the Civil War elsewhere in the cemetery were moved to site’s life-size bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Union Navy’s Mississippi Squadron and this location, and in 1948 it was designated a celebrates and honors this well-known president. for a Union hospital complex. The Illinois State national cemetery. Many notable persons are buried here including Monument, honoring all soldiers and sailors who Sergeant George Theodore Hyatt, who received died during the Civil War, was completed in 1875 the Medal of Honor for his actions during the and is situated at the center of the old cemetery. Civil War at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Notable burials include Russian born Union 6 Brigadier General John Turchin, who immigrated CONFEDERATE Rock Island Confederate to the United States in 1856 and joined the Cemetery* 19th Illinois Volunteers in 1861. CEMETERIES Rock Island Arsenal, Rodman Avenue North Alton Confederate Cemetery Rock Island  Quincy National Cemetery 635 Rozier Street  Alton 309-782-2094 www.cem.va.gov 36th & Streets (3701 Maine Street)  Quincy 314-845-8320  www.cem.va.gov Open daily dawn to dusk 309-782-2094  www.cem.va.gov Open daily dawn to dusk Located northwest of the Rock Island National Open daily dawn to dusk In 1863 disease spread rapidly through the Union Cemetery is the Rock Island Confederate Civil War soldiers were originally buried in a plot prison in Alton, killing many of the incarcerated Cemetery. This is the final resting place for located within Woodland Cemetery in Quincy. Confederate soldiers. They were buried in a approximately 1,950 Confederate prisoners of Designated the Quincy National Cemetery 1882, prison plot north of Alton, their graves individually war who died while being held on the island at by 1899 fears of erosion at Woodland Cemetery marked by a wooden stake. The wooden markers the Rock Island Prison Camp. The cemetery is led to the graves being relocated to Graceland deteriorated over time and were replaced with the only remaining feature of the camp. Cemetery. It wasn’t until 1936 that the soldiers’ a 58-foot tall memorial obelisk that included the lot in was designated names of the 1,354 Confederate soldiers buried Quincy National Cemetery. in the North Alton Confederate Cemetery. STATE VETERANS

CEMETERY Rock Island National Cemetery* Confederate Mound Rock Island Arsenal, Building 118  Rock Island 309-782-2094  www.cem.va.gov Sunset Cemetery 1035 E. 67th Street  Chicago REMEMBERING THE FALLEN Open daily dawn to dusk Illinois Veterans’ Home 815-423-9958  www.cem.va.gov 1707 N. 12th Street  Quincy Open daily dawn to dusk The cemetery on Arsenal Island was established 217-222-8641 ext. 202 in 1863 and serves as the final resting place Initially used as a Union training center during www.cem.va.gov  quincyivh.org for service members from numerous wars and the Civil War, became a prison for Open daily 8am to dusk conflicts. Notable burials within the national Confederate soldiers. Those who died in captivity cemetery include Brigadier General Thomas Located on the grounds of the largest and were interred at the camp or at Chicago’s Old Jackson Rodman, who developed the Rodman oldest of the Illinois Veterans’ Homes, Sunset City Cemetery. After the war the camp was gun and was assigned to establish and head what Cemetery is the final resting place for more disassembled, and between 1865-1867 more later became the Rock Island Arsenal. Medal of than 7,000 Illinois veterans and their spouses. than 4,000 Confederate soldiers’ remains were Honor recipients laid to rest here include Private Gravesites date as far back as the Civil War. removed from both locations and reinterred First Class Frank Peter Witek (World War II), Three Medal of Honor recipients are interred in a mass grave at Oak Woods Cemetery (plot Private Ralph Anthony Ignatowski (World War II, here: Corporal Lester Hammond Jr. (Korean located between Divisions 1 and 2 of Section K). ), and Private First Class John War), John O’Dea (Civil War, Battle of Vicksburg) In 1895, the 30-foot granite column marking Junior Willie (World War II, Navajo Code Talker). and William G. Taylor (Civil War, onboard U.S.S. Confederate Mound was dedicated by President Ticonderoga during attacks on Fort Fisher). Grover . Those soldiers whose names Camp Butler National Cemetery were known were later placed on bronze 5063 Camp Butler Road  Springfield plaques on the monument’s base. The marble 217-492-4070  www.cem.va.gov headstones next to the mound mark the final Open daily 7:30am to sunset resting place of 12 unknown Union prison guards. Camp Butler National Cemetery is one of the fourteen original national cemeteries authorized by President Abraham Lincoln. The cemetery was once part of Camp Butler, one of the largest Civil War training sites for Union troops. After the fall of Fort Donelson in February 1862, the camp housed almost 2,000 Confederate prisoners of war. There are over 25,000 persons interred here, including 866 Union and 776 Confederate soldiers who died at the camp between 1862 and 1865. Medal of Honor recipient Seaman John H. Catherwood (Philippines, 1911) is buried here. Other notable persons interred here include Major George W. Ford, a civil rights activist and Superintendent of Camp Butler National Cemetery for 24 years, and Lieutenant Colonel Ottis Beverly Duncan, the highest ranking African-American officer in the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I and recipient of the French Croix de Guerre.

* Rock Island Arsenal is an active military installation and requires visitors to access via the Moline Gate and obtain a visitor pass. For details visit arsenalhistoricalsociety.org.

Alton National Cemetery Wreaths Across America Day is celebrated annually in December. Volunteers in communities across the nation place balsam wreaths in remembrance of fallen soldiers. enjoyillinois.com 7 VETERANS MEMORIALS

Civil War Monument – | Galena County Tourism

ADDISON World War I ASHLAND Veterans Memorial Veterans Circle Veterans Memorial Ashland Veterans Veterans Memorial Island Park 2 W. Illinois Avenue W. (U.S. Highway 20) & 12300 S. Memorial N. Addison Road N. Yates & W. Editor Streets ALTAMONT Veterans ALBION Veterans Memorial ASHTON Phillips Park, 1000 Ray Drive Edwards County Union Cemetery Ashton Veterans AVON County Road 300 E. Memorial Plaza Memorial Plaque Veterans Memorial Edwards County Courthouse ALTON Mills & Petrie Memorial Library S. Main & Cortland Streets 50 E. Main Street 704 N. 1st Street Alton Veterans Memorial BARRY ALGONQUIN Alton ASTORIA Veterans & Veterans Memorial Post 1308 Community Veterans Cary Road & Beech Way Drive 4445 N. Alby Street M60 Memorial Lafayette Park ALLENDALE Civil War Monument Astoria Town Park Mason & Rodgers Streets North Alton Confederate Cemetery 203 W. Allendale Veterans BARTONVILLE 635 Rozier Street ATHENS Memorial McDonnell Douglas Ruritan Park, near N. & The Cost of Freedom Veterans Memorial F-4C-23-MC “Phantom II” Lancaster Road Athens Community Park War Memorial Plaque Limestone 210 Dottie Bednarko Drive ALSEY Alton National Cemetery Post 979 600 Pearl Street Veterans Memorial 4501 Airport Road Church Boulevard & Lincoln Lane ANNA Atlanta Illinois BATAVIA ALSIP Anna World War I Veterans Memorial Batavia War Memorial Memorial Atlanta Public Library W. Wilson Street & Alsip Veterans Memorial Anna Cemetery, E. Davie Street 100 E. Race Street Alsip Police Department Hall Civil War Monument 4500 W. 123rd Street AURORA Veterans and Fallen for African-American Veterans of Foreign Comrades Memorial Aurora Vietnam Soldiers S. Main & W. Vienna Streets Wars Post 450 Veterans Memorial East Batavia Cemetery Wilder Park, 350 N. River Street 1100 N. Washington Street Iraqi Memorial ARLINGTON HEIGHTS S. & W. 118th Street Memorial Park Aurora World War I Civil War Veterans Plaza Intersection of W. Fremont Street, Memorial Memorial 11801 S. W. Park Place & N. Chestnut Avenue Sunken Gardens at Phillips Park West Batavia Cemetery 901 Ray Moses Drive 900 S. Batavia Avenue

8 BATH World War II Memorial BOURBONNAIS Miller Park, 903 W. Wood Street World War II Memorial Goselin Park Bath Village Park (Honoring Vietnam Veteran S. & E. 1st Street World War II Memorial Goselin) Water , Bourbonnais Municipal Campus BEARDSTOWN William Latham Sr. Drive World War I Memorial Beardstown Veterans Plaque & McBarnes Memorial Municipal Veteran Memorial Building Monument State Route 125 & Plaque Beardstown Road Bourbonnais Municipal Center McLean County Museum of 700 Main Street NW Veterans Memorial & History, 200 N. Main Street Veteran Freedom Piece BLUE ISLAND Garden Art Zeeck Park Blue Island W. 2nd & Washington Streets Olivet Nazarene University Public Library ROTC Building, 615 S. Main Street BEECHER Western Illinois Museum Western Veterans Memorial 2433 York Street (inside) Veteran Freedom Sign Veterans Memorial Olivet Nazarene University Hodges & Reed Streets Grand Army of the ROTC Building, 615 S. Main Street Sokol Tabor BEECHER CITY Republic Memorial VETERANS MEMORIALS Veterans Memorial World War I Memorial Memorial Park Beecher City Area Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Sokol Tabor 12804 Highland Avenue Veterans Memorial 1602 Clarence Avenue Mary E. Poplar & S. George Streets In Honor and 308 E. Marsile Street Veterans Memorial Remembrance of BELLEVILLE Flagpole BRIDGEVIEW Mraz Park America’s Women Bridgeview Veterans Veteran’s Memorial Memorial Park Riverside Drive & 23rd Street Fountain 12804 Highland Avenue Memorial &

Belleville Square BETHALTO Clayton Lund Memorial Illinois & Main Streets S. Oketo Avenue & W. 75th Street Ling-Temco-Vought Bethalto World War I A-7D-11-CV “Corsair II” (across from Village of Bridgeview World War I Plaque Memorial Trees Memorial Park Police Department) Belleville Public Library Bethalto Arboretum 12804 Highland Avenue 121 E. Washington Street E. Central Street Corporal Edwin R. BELVIDERE (between E. Main Street & Spanish-American Wierzba Memorial S. Moreland Road) War Memorial Wierzba Park Field of Blue Memorial Park S. Oketo Avenue & W. 78th Street BLANDINSVILLE Boone County 12804 Highland Avenue BRIGHTON Memorial Garden Blandinsville – Keen Age Center Good Hope – Sciota Veterans Memorial Spirit of the 2141 Henry Luckow Lane Community Veteran with Honor Roll American Doughboy Memorial Park S. Main & Walnut Streets Memorial Garden & Memorial 12804 Highland Avenue S. Main Street World War II Era Tank (between W. Adams & 1310 W. Veterans Memorial, Jefferson Streets) S. D. Anderson American Soldiers and Sailors of BLOOMINGTON Legion Post 830 Plaque & Boone County Memorial Illinois Civil War Memorial Pavers Big Thunder Park Beverly Cemetery 699 Van Buren Street Memorial & Cannons 12000 S. Kedzie Avenue Miller Park, 903 W. Wood Street

BEMENT Illinois Wesleyan World War I Studebaker Veterans Memorial 4.7-inch Field Gun M1906 Veterans Memorial Park Memorial Gymnasium Memorial Park 300 E. Beecher Street N. Macon & E. Bowyer Streets 12804 Highland Avenue BERWYN Korea and Vietnam BLUFFS Veterans Memorial Berwyn Veteran’s, Police Miller Park, 903 W. Wood Street Veterans Memorial and Fire Memorial City Park Berwyn Municipal Building McLean County Soldiers State Route 100 & E. Oakes Street 6700 W. 26th Street and Sailors Monument BOLINGBROOK Miller Park, 903 W. Wood Street Berwyn World War I Bolingbrook Veterans

Memorial World War I M1917 Memorial Illinois Museum Western 34th Street & 6-ton Light Tank & Bolingbrook Village Hall Artillery Piece 375 W. Briarcliff Road Miller Park, 903 W. Wood Street enjoyillinois.com 9 CARMI Cannon Veterans Memorial Park, State Route 14 & S. Main Cross Street

Revolutionary Soldiers Memorial Veterans Memorial Park, State Route 14 & S. Main Cross Street

The Four Chaplains Memorial Veterans Memorial Park, State Route 14 & S. Main Cross Street

Women Veterans from White County Memorial Veterans Memorial Park, State Route 14 & S. Main Cross Street CARPENTERSVILLE

Rock Island Arsenal Rock Veterans’ Garden The Wall That Heals (touring memorial) and Memorials Carpenter Park E. Main Street & S. Lord Avenue BROOKFIELD BYRON CAMBRIDGE Brookfield Veterans Byron Civil War Henry County CARRIER MILLS Memorial & 1943 M5 Memorial & Cannons World War I Memorial Carrier Mills 3-inch Anti-Tank Gun E. 2nd & N. Chestnut Streets Henry County Courthouse Veterans Memorial Brookfield Historical Society 307 W. Center Street Mill & Clark Streets 8820½ Brookfield Avenue Cahokia Veteran’s CANTON CARTERVILLE Korean War Memorial & Memorial Bell UH-1H-BF Carterville Veterans North American F-86D/ E. 1st Street & State Route 3 “ (Huey)” Memorial L-55-NA Sabre Jet Ingersoll Airport Carterville Heritage Museum CAIRO 26013 Ingersoll Road Ehlert Park 139 S. & Congress Park Avenues Alexander County (center of park) Veterans Memorial Canton Community CARTHAGE Veterans Memorial BROOKPORT 25th Street & Washington Avenue Memorial Lakeland Park Main & N. Fayette Streets 1200 N. Lakeland Park Drive World War II Duncan Cannon (Civil War Rodman CARY Honor Roll Memorial Fulton County Intersection of U.S. Highway 45, Smooth Bore Cannon) American Legion W. 3rd & Ohio Streets U.S. Custom House Museum Veterans Memorial 1400 Washington Avenue Jones Park, East Side Square Post 275 World War II BROWNSTOWN Memorial Persian Gulf War CANTRALL Veterans Park Brownstown Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Avenue & N. 1st Street Veterans Memorial Lansden Park City Park, Claypool Street & CASEY 1st & Streets Walnut Street & Holbrook Avenue State Route 29

BURBANK Casey Area Veterans of Foreign CARBONDALE Veterans Memorial Burbank Wars Post 2649 Fairview Park, SE 4th Street Carbondale Veterans Veterans Memorial Memorial Marker & Memorials & Intersection of State Road, Casey Veterans of 85th Street & Melvina Avenue World War I Howitzer Doughboy Statue U.S. Custom House Museum Veteran Memorial Plaza Foreign Wars Post 5762 BURR RIDGE 1400 Washington Avenue E. Main & S. Washington Streets Memorial Casey Veterans of Foreign Wars Burr Ridge PARK World War II Memorial Post 5762 Veterans Memorial Cedar Park Cemetery 111 S. Illinois Avenue 300 S. Central Avenue 7660 County Line Road Veterans Memorial CARLYLE POW/MIA Memorial Cedar Park Cemetery BUSHNELL Clinton County Casey Police Station 12540 S. 106 E. Cumberland Avenue Veterans Memorials, War Memorial Artillery Pieces & Tank Clinton County Courthouse Veterans Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars 850 Fairfax Street Cumberland Cemetery Memorial Park, State Route 9 N. 10th Street (at entrance)

10 Victor Hill American CHAPIN Battery A Chicago Chicago Council of Gold Legion Post 534 Veterans Memorial Light Artillery Civil War Star Mothers Memorial Memorial Superior Street Memorial Dan Ryan Woods Visitors Center S. & Fairview Park, SE 4th Street CHARLESTON 5800 N. Ravenswood Avenue W. 87th Street CATLIN Charleston Vermilion County World War I Memorial Bell American Legion Chicago Remembers War Memorial Post 242 Veterans Vietnam Veterans 210 N. Paris Street 6th & Jackson Streets Memorial Memorial W. Randolph & N. Franklin Streets Chicago Riverwalk CENTRALIA Coles County W. Wacker Drive & N. State Street

Doughboy World War I Civil War Memorial Brigadier General Coles County Courthouse Chicago’s Memorial Thaddeus Kosciuszko 6th Street & Monroe Avenue Monument Memorial Fairview Park N. Dearborn Street 1035 W. McCord Street Park Coles County Solidarity Drive (median) (between W. Washington & W. Randolph Streets) Lockheed T-33A-1-LO War Memorial Coles County Courthouse Canaryville Veterans “Shooting Star,” 7th Street & Monroe Avenue Chinese American Memorial Republic F-105D-31-RE Canaryville Branch – Veterans Memorial Eastern Illinois S. Archer & S. Princeton Avenues “Thunderchief” & U.S. Army -Ajax Missile University World War I 642 W. 43rd Street Fairview Park Civil War Memorial Memorial Bohemian National Cemetery 1035 W. McCord Street Old Main Flagpole 5255 N. Pulaski Road Lincoln Avenue & 6th Street

Pittenger War Memorial Civil War Memorial 710 Gragg Street Schahrer Field Rosehill Cemetery Memorial Plaque 5800 N. Ravenswood Avenue Veterans Tribute at Eastern Illinois University Kaskaskia College Martin Luther King Jr. University Clearing-Park Shops 27210 College Road Union, 7th Street Memorial (plaque located in Schahrer Room) W. 55th Street & S. Vietnam Memorial Fairview Park CHATHAM 1035 W. McCord Street Company B 1st Chatham Veterans Regiment Illinois Light World War II Memorial Memorial & Cannon Artillery Civil War Fairview Park Chatham Square Memorial 1035 W. McCord Street N. Main & W. Mulberry Streets Rosehill Cemetery

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War Memorial & Chicago Military Academy American Legion Peace Memorial World War I and II 3501 S. Giles Avenue Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright Street Monument (on exterior, near main entrance) (south courtyard) E. Chestnut & Rush Streets Memorial 121 N. LaSalle Drive (inside, ground floor)

enjoyillinois.com 11 Elks National Memorial Historic World War II Lieutenant Commander Old Neighborhood 2750 N. Lakeview Avenue Victory Garden (USN) Edward O’Hare Italian American Club April 15 - November 15: Memorial Memorial & Grumman Foundation Veterans Mon-Sat Noon-4pm 3004 S. Canal Street F4F-3 “Wildcat” Memorial Fountain O’Hare International Airport The Old Neighborhood Eternal Flame Memorial Hyde Park High School Daley Plaza, Washington Street 10000 W. O’Hare Avenue Italian-American Club World War I Memorial (west end of Terminal 2, 3031 S. Shields Avenue (between Clark & Dearborn Streets) Plaque behind security checkpoint) 6200 S. Stoney Island Avenue Old Neighborhood First Lieutenant Derwin Logan Square Italian American Club Williams Memorial Jefferson Park World War I Memorial Veterans Memorial War Memorial 2400 N. Francisco Avenue S. Throop Street & W. 98th Place The Old Neighborhood N. & W. Higgins Italian-American Club G.A.R. Memorial Hall & Avenues (in intersection) M60 Main Battle 3031 S. Shields Avenue Grand Army of the Tank Memorial John Alexander Republic Rotunda Eastside Memorial Operation Desert Storm/ Logan Monument S. Indianapolis & S. Ewing Avenues Operation Desert Shield 78 E. Washington Street Grant Park, East of S. Michigan Memorial Avenue at E. 9th Street Manuel Perez (use entrance) Ridge Park Mon-Fri 10am-7pm Memorial Plaza 9625 S. Longwood Drive Joyce Kilmer Triangle 26th Street & Kolin Avenue Sat & Sun 10am-5pm Memorial Plaque Operation Iraqi General Philip Henry Intersection of N. Rogers, Memorial Water Wall Freedom Memorial Sheridan Monument W. Birchwood & N. Ashland Jesse Brown Veterans Avenues 1410 S. Drive Intersection of N. Drive, (north side of stadium) Administration Medical Center W. & 820 S. Damen Avenue Korean War Memorial N. W. Merrimac Park Kennedy Park Polish Legion of General Ulysses 11320 S. Western Avenue Veterans Memorial Merrimac Park American Veterans Grant Memorial Laurens Shull Memorial 6343 W. Irving Park Road Post 20 Memorial 2045 N. W. (World War I Doughboy Statue) Immaculate Conception Catholic Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Morgan Park World War I Church, 2944 E. 88th Street Graver Park 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue Memorial Tree Marker World War I Memorial (above west entrance) W. 112th Street & S. Lothair Avenue Private First Class Graver Park, 1518 W. 102nd Place Milton Olive (in park between W. 103rd Street & Mount Greenwood Medal of Honor W. 102nd Place) American Legion Recipient Memorial Post 844 Memorial Milton Lee Olive Park W. 111th Street & S. Kedzie Avenue 1010 E.

Nathan Hale Memorial Pullman Monument 435 N. Michigan Avenue 11313 S. Forrestville Avenue (on sidewalk, west side of Norman Cornwall Pullman Elementary School) Memorial (West Side Chicago World War I Rutherford-Sayre Park Veterans Memorial) World War I Memorial Garfield Park Rutherford-Sayre Park S. Central Park Avenue (3600W) 6871 W. Belden Avenue & W. Jackson Boulevard (300S) (in front of fieldhouse/library)

North Central District Sauganash Veterans World War I Memorial Memorial 806 N. Michigan Avenue 4600 W. Peterson Avenue

Norwood Park Seaman First Class Vietnam Memorial James E. Humbert Norwood Park Memorial N. Avondale & N. Nina Avenues Humbert Park 3050 S. Lowe Avenue Nurse Lucille Pepoon Memorial Plaque Sergeant Gregory J. Independence Park Sintic Memorial 3945 N. Springfield Avenue Sintic Park

Chicago Southland CVB 2835 S. Wallace Street

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12 Smith Park AMVETS St. Mary’s Romanian Post 42 Memorial & Orthodox Church Artillery Piece World War II Veterans Smith Park Memorial 2526 W. St. Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church, 4225 N. Central Avenue Smith Park World War I Memorial & Tank St. Michael Smith Park Catholic War Veterans 2526 W. Grand Avenue Memorial Soldier Field St. Michaels Court & W. Eugenie Street 1410 S. Museum Campus Drive Tours: Approximately 45 minutes St. Salomea Parish to 1 hour with advance reservation. Schedule tour time at World War II Memorial soldierfield.net/tours S. Avenue & E. 118th Street

Soldier Field Colonnades The Spirit of the Medal of Honor Display Fighting Yank Memorial 2720 W. Soldier Field 1410 S. Museum Campus Drive Tree of Honor Bataan- (upper promenade, south end) The City of Salem Corregidor Memorial Spanish-American Chick Mostow Green War Memorial Intersection of Niles Center Road & Skokie Boulevard Bohemian National Cemetery 5255 N. Pulaski Road Tribute to Freedom Spanish-American War, E. McFetridge Drive BIRTHPLACE OF (north of Soldier Field) Philippine Insurrection & China Relief Expedition U.S.S. Chicago Anchor THE G.I. BILL , 600 E. Grand Avenue Memorial Ridge Park In early November 1943, eight World War I veterans met 9625 S. Longwood Drive U.S.S. Chicago Bell Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Avenue for dinner at American Legion Post 128 in Salem, Illinois. Spirit of the (inside) After the meal, they discussed what the country should be doing to help the troops who came home after fighting American Doughboy Soldier Field in World War II. They each grabbed napkins and made 1410 S. Museum Campus Drive World War I notes. Since they knew firsthand the challenges post-war (inside stadium near Gate O) Memorial Plaque veterans would face, they wrote it all down: healthcare, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel St. Agnes Parish 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue educational opportunities, help financing a home, job (inside chapel) training, and more. World War I Memorial Plaque Veterans Memorial One of the men at the table was former Illinois Governor Jesse Brown Veterans 3160 N. Milwaukee Avenue Administration Medical Center John Stelle from McLeansboro. He gathered the napkins, 820 S. Damen Avenue Veterans of Foreign took them to Washington, D.C., and showed them to (inside, near entrance) Wars Post 8821 American Legion members there. They put together a St. Boniface Veterans Memorial & committee to present their proposal to Congress for a bill Union Soldiers Artillery Piece that would encompass all their suggestions. Governor Monument Intersection of W. 51st Street, Stelle was chairman of the committee, and proudly S. Archer & S. Tripp Avenues 4901 N. Clark Street watched a year later when President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, which St. Casimir Cemetery Victory Monument 35th Street & came to be known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. In June 1958, Veterans Memorial & S. Martin Luther King Drive Salem was officially named the “Birthplace of the G.I. Bill

Artillery Piece of Rights.” June 22, 2019 marked the 75th anniversary St. Casimir Catholic Cemetery Vietnam Veterans 4401 W. 111th Street of the signing of the bill. The table from that November Survivors Memorial 815 S. Oakley Boulevard dinner, where it all began, is on display at the American St. Hyacinth Basilica Legion Post 128 in Salem. World War I Memorial Wall of Honor 3636 W. Wolfram Street Jesse Brown Veterans —Pat White, ILLINOISouth Tourism Bureau Administration Medical Center 820 S. Damen Avenue (in the corridor by Image: President Franklin Roosevelt signing the Ogden Avenue entrance) G.I. Bill in 1944 (City of Salem) enjoyillinois.com 13 CLARK CENTER COUNTRY CLUB HILLS Auburn Township Country Club Hills Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorials 12251 E. Johnson Street Country Club Hills City Hall 4200 W. Main Street CLAY CITY Veterans Memorial COUNTRYSIDE Mills Park, S. Main Street City of Countryside (between S. 5th Street SE & Veterans Memorial S. 4th Street SE) Memorial Park Plainfield Road & 55th Street CLINTON DeWitt County COWDEN War Memorial All Wars Memorial Town Square, Center & Main Streets Cowden Village Hall 133 W. Locust Street Veterans Point Memorial Weldon Springs State Park CREST HILL 4734 Weldon Springs Road Crest Hill Veterans COLCHESTER Memorial Garden Lincoln Highway & Theodore Street Veterans Memorial S. Fulton & Market Streets CRETE Veterans Memorial Crete Veterans Memorial State Route 1 & Exchange Street Marker & M2A1 105mm Howitzer Crete World War I Park Memorial & U.S. Highway 136 Chicago Southland CVB (between N. Williams & Artillery Piece Village of Orland Park Veterans Memorial “Ara Pace – Place of Peace” Crete Park N. Charles Streets) Main Street (north end of park) COLLINSVILLE Water Tower Plaza – World War II Memorial CROPSEY Chicago North Central Ridge Park Spanish-American 9625 S. Longwood Drive Cropsey World War I District World War I War Memorial City Hall, 125 S. Center Street Memorial Memorial Plaque World War II Monument S. Main & S. Pratt Streets N. Michigan & E. Chicago Avenues N. Fairfield & W. Devon Avenues Veterans Memorials, CRYSTAL LAKE West World War II Artillery Piece & Bell AH-1S-BF “Huey Cobra” Crystal Lake Vietnam Memorial Submariners Memorial Veterans Memorial Gage Park, Intersection of Leighton Evatt American Legion 435 E. Riverwalk Drive Depot Park W. Garfield Boulevard & Post 365 N. Main & E. Woodstock Streets S. Western Avenue (in median) World War II 1022 Vandalia Street

Training Memorial Second Lieutenant West Pullman World War II Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Avenue William Chandler World War I Memorial Memorial Plaque West Pullman Park CHICAGO HEIGHTS Collinsville Memorial Public Library Peterson Memorial 401 W. 123rd Street 408 W. Main Street Plaque Veterans Memorial 131 W. Paddock Street State Route 1 (Chicago Road) & COLLISON Wilcox Post #668, Grand U.S. Highway 30 (Lincoln Highway) Army of the Republic, Pilot Township Memorial CULLOM Department of Illinois CHICAGO RIDGE County Route 750 E. & Ling-Temco-Vought County Route 2500 N. 1889 Memorial Glenn Maker American GA-7D “Corsair II” Ridge Park Legion Post 1160 COLUMBIA Skinner Trost American Legion 9625 S. Longwood Drive Post 122 Veterans Memorial Six Great Wars Memorial W. Jackson & S. Maple Streets World War I and II 10739 S. Ridgeland Avenue & Doughboy DANVILLE Memorial & Flagpole CHRISMAN Legion Memorial Park Bohemian National Cemetery Memorial Drive & E. Locust Street Civil War Memorial – 5255 N. Pulaski Road Chrisman Community CORTLAND Soldiers’ Circle Veterans Monument Spring Hill Cemetery World War I Memorial Chrisman Town Square Town of Cortland 301 E. Voorhees Street Grove & Plaque Monroe Avenue Veterans Memorial Suppeland Park Danville College Alumni 6743 S. Kedzie Avenue Pampas Street & E. Meadow Drive Korean War Memorial (Mann Drive, east of playground Danville Area Community College off sidewalk) E. Main Street & Blue Star Highway

14 Danville National Jet Aviators DAVIS JUNCTION Veterans Memorial Cemetery War Memorial of the Korean War Community Veterans E. Wood & W. Franklin Streets Danville National Cemetery (F-86 Sabre Jet) Memorial DEKALB 1900 E. Main Street Vermilion Regional Airport 202 Pacific Street 22633 N. Bowman Avenue DeKalb Soldiers and Danville World War I Davis Junction Sailors Memorial Clock Victory Monument Redden Square Veterans Memorial Memorial Park, 101 Lincoln Highway Victory Monument Plaza (Honoring Curtis Redden) Davis Junction Park W. Main & S. Gilbert Streets Vermilion County Courthouse N. Moody Street & Lincoln Avenue Donald P. Schoo Main & Vermilion Streets Veteran Memorial Korean and Vietnam DECATUR Memorial Park, 101 Lincoln Highway Revolutionary War War Memorial African American Memorial Way Monument World War I Era Tank N. Hazel & Cherry Streets 201 N. Vermilion Street Civil War Soldiers Memorial Park, 101 Lincoln Highway Monument Landing Ship Robert E. Wurtsbaugh Decatur City Center Plaza DELAVAN 300 Block of N. Water Street (LST) Memorial Memorial Bridge Delavan Veterans Danville National Cemetery Ellsworth Park Memorial & 1900 E. Main Street 115 W. Ellsworth Street G.A.R. Civil War (footbridge in park) Memorial Artillery Piece Major Kenneth D. Bailey, Greenwood Cemetery Community Park Medal of Honor Recipient Women’s War Memorial 606 S. Church Street State Route 122 & S. Elm Street E. Madison & N. Hazel Streets Memorial Plaque Macon County DES PLAINES Memorial Way World War II Memorial Belleau Wood N. Hazel & Cherry Streets Korean War Memorial Memorial Way Graceland Cemetery World War I Memorial N. Hazel & Cherry Streets 1801 N. Oakland Avenue Ballard & Rand Roads Middle East Conflict Memorial Wall DARIEN Macon County Des Plaines Memorial Way Darien Veterans E. Williams & N. Hazel Streets Soldiers Monument Veterans Memorial Memorial Central Park Lake Park Memorial Pavilion Military Aircraft in Honor Darien Municipal Center N. Water Street & E. 2200 Lee Street 1702 Plainfield Road of Chanute Air Force Macon County DIETERICH Base and its Personnel Veterans Memorial World War I Memorial Dieterich Community (Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Clarendon Hills Cemetery Nelson Park, 2475 Pavilion Drive “Corsair II”) 6900 S. Cass Avenue Veterans Memorial & W. Main Street & S. Logan Avenue 1889 Cannon Macon County World War II Memorial Liberty Park Decatur Civic Center Park & W. Streets 1 Gary K. Anderson Plaza DIVERNON Veterans Memorial City Park, S. 1st & Dodds Streets DIXON Bell UH-1D-BF “Iroquois (Huey)” Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 540 1560 Franklin Grove Road

City of Dixon Beirut Bombing Memorial Veterans Memorial Park 668 Veterans Parkway

Civil War Memorial Old Lee County Courthouse 112 E. 2nd Street

Dixon Veterans Memorial 215 S. Galena Avenue

Fallen Soldier Memorial Veterans Memorial Park 668 Veterans Parkway

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enjoyillinois.com 15 Horace Ortt Memorial EAST DUBUQUE Effingham County ELDORADO Haymarket Square Veterans’ Memorial Veteran’s Memorial Veterans Memorial W. 2nd Street & Highland Avenue East Dubuque District Library Effingham County Cultural Center Locust & 1st Streets 122 and Museum Lee County Honor Roll 100 E. Jefferson Avenue Veterans Memorial & Old Lee County Courthouse EAST MOLINE Artillery Piece 112 E. 2nd Street Campbell’s Island G.A.R. Memorial Eldorado City Cemetery Oak Ridge Cemetery (Wolf Creek Cemetery) Lee County World War I State Memorial 912 E. Jefferson Street 124 Island Avenue Raleigh & N. Creek Roads Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Veterans’ Memorial & ELGIN 668 Veterans Parkway UTHS Wall of Artillery Piece Elgin Academy Heroes Plaque Oak Ridge Cemetery United Township High School Lee County World War II 912 E. Jefferson Street Civil War Memorial 1275 Avenue of the Cities Park & College Streets Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Park EAST ST. LOUIS W.R.C. Memorial 668 Veterans Parkway Oak Ridge Cemetery Elgin World War I East St. Louis 912 E. Jefferson Street Memorial & Doughboy Villa & Prairie Streets Mothers of WW2, Dixon Bar Association Unit 123 Memorial World War I Memorial Yates Post No. 88 Veterans Memorial Park Veterans Memorial Park City Hall, 301 Riverpark Drive Woman’s Relief Corps 274 N. Grove Avenue 668 Veterans Parkway (inside courtroom) Memorial Effingham County Cultural Center ELIZABETHTOWN Rock River Area East St. Louis and Museum Hardin County Vietnam Memorial Soldiers Memorial 100 E. Jefferson Avenue Veterans Memorial Park Jones Park War Memorial 668 Veterans Parkway Intersection of Lynch Avenue, EL PASO Hardin County Courthouse N. 25th & N. 26th Streets Community of El Paso 102 E. Market Street Veterans Memorial, World War I and II GROVE VILLAGE Armed Forces Vehicles & EDGEWOOD Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Aircraft Veterans Memorial N. Central & E. Front Streets Edgewood American Legion Biesterfield Road & Veterans Memorial Park Wellington Avenue 668 Veterans Parkway Post 1168 ELBURN 810 State Route 37 ELKHART DOWNERS GROVE Blackberry Memorial EDWARDSVILLE Tree and Marker Elkhart Doughboy American Legion Ling-Temco-Vought Blackberry Cemetery Memorial Post 80 Monument 677 S. Main Street Veterans Park, Gov. Oglesby Street 400 Saratoga Avenue A-7E-16-CV “Corsair II” Edwardsville Township World War I and II Elkhart World War I DU QUOIN Community Park Veterans Memorial & 6368 Center Grove Road Memorial Trees Veterans Memorial Tank Elkhart Christian Church Keyes Park Private Guy Weeks Veterans Memorial Park 113 S. Gillett Street E. Park & N. Division Streets Memorial & Doughboy 301 E. North Street DUNDEE Woodlawn Cemetery 1400 St. Louis Street Dundee Civil War Memorial Ryan C. Garbs Dundee Township Cemetery East Gold Star Memorial 420 Dundee Avenue Edwardsville City Park 112 S. Street Dundee Veterans Honor Roll Memorial Plaque Victory Mothers of 319 N. River Street Edwardsville Unit 18 EAST ALTON Memorial Edwardsville City Park East Alton American 112 S. Kansas Street Legion Veterans Memorial Park EFFINGHAM N. Shamrock & W. Main Streets Effingham County McDonnell Douglas Civil War Memorial Cannon F-4C-18-MC Effingham County Cultural Center “Phantom II” and Museum St. Louis Regional Airport 100 E. Jefferson Avenue

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16 German Artillery Piece Landing Ship Tanks Elkhart Public Library (LST) Memorial 121 Bohan Street Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery 20953 W. Hoff Road ELMHURST Elmhurst College Memorial Walk Memorial Hall Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery 190 S. Prospect Avenue 20953 W. Hoff Road

Veterans Memorial Pearl Harbor Memorial Wilder Park Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery 20953 W. Hoff Road 175 S. Prospect Avenue ELMWOOD U.S.S. S-44 Submarine Warfare Memorial Veterans Honor Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Roll Memorial 20953 W. Hoff Road

Elmwood Central Park Hough Funeral Homes, LTD 110 E. Main Street EQUALITY Civil War Cannon, Hillsboro ELSAH General Michael Kelly Lawler Memorial EVERGREEN PARK FLORA Elsah World War I Calhoun Circle & E. Jackson Street Memorial Evergreen Park Korean War Memorial Fountain Square Park Village of Equality Veterans Memorial & Flora Public Library 216 N. Main Street Mill Street Veterans Memorial Artillery Piece Evergreen Park American Legion ELWOOD Mc Lain-Glover American Legion World War II Memorial Post 595 Post 854 Flora Public Library American Legion 9701 S. Kedzie Avenue 186 W. Lane Street 216 N. Main Street Post 1080 EUREKA Veterans Memorial FOREST PARK Veterans Memorial Evergreen Cemetery Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Woodford County Roll of 3401 W. 87th Street American Legion Post 414 20953 W. Hoff Road Honor – World War I Memorial Plaque Woodford County Courthouse FAIRFIELD Forest Park American Legion Soldiers 115 N. Main Street (inside) Wayne County Honor Post 414 Memorial 500 Circle Avenue Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Woodford County Roll & Private First Class 20953 W. Hoff Road Kenneth Kays Medal Veterans Memorial Forest Park Woodford County Courthouse of Honor Recipient Carl Lindberry World War I Memorial 115 N. Main Street (inside) Memorial Adams Street & Thomas Avenue American Legion Wayne County Courthouse EVANSTON Post 1009 Veterans 301 E. Center Street Woodlawn Cemetery Memorial Alumnus David Thomas Veterans Memorial Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Hanson, Captain FAIRMOUNT Woodlawn Cemetery 20953 W. Hoff Road 7750 W. Medical Corps, 142nd Fairmount War Memorial Infantry, United States S. Main Street (at entrance near Cermak Road & China-Burma- (between South & Front Streets) Hainsworth Avenue) World War II Veterans Army Monument FARMERSVILLE FORRESTON Memorial Harris Hall, 1881 Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Forreston Veteran’s (monument is southwest of the hall) Veterans Memorial 20953 W. Hoff Road City Park, 504 Nobbe Street Memorial Evanston Memorial Walnut & Cherry Streets Commonwealth Edison FARMINGTON Flagpole FRANKFORT American Legion Patriots Park Farmington Soldier Post 118 Veterans Forest Place & Davis Street and Sailor Memorial Frankfort Township Memorial Reed’s Park, 180 E. Fulton Street Veterans Memorial Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Evanston Township High Frankfort Township Building 20953 W. Hoff Road FITHIAN 11000 W. Lincoln Highway School Memorial Trees 1600 Dodge Avenue Veterans Memorial Park &

Destroyer Escorts John Robert Anderegg Frankfort Veterans Memorial Helen Wood Memorial Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Memorial Breidert Green Memorial Stone N. Main & W. Washington Streets 20953 W. Hoff Road Ash & Kansas Streets Evanston Hospital 2650 FLANAGAN Korean War Veterans FRANKLIN Memorial Veterans Memorial Wall Flanagan Area Veterans Veterans Memorial Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Fountain Square Memorial & Tank Community Park 20953 W. Hoff Road Intersection of Davis Street, 203 S. Main Street State & West Streets Sherman & Orrington Avenues enjoyillinois.com 17 FRANKLIN PARK GAYS GLASGOW Franklin Park American Cole Edward Veterans Memorial Legion Post 974 Spencer Memorial Exchange Street & Veterans Memorial & & Front Streets Alsey Glasgow Road Artillery Pieces GENESEO GLEN CARBON 9550 Belmont Avenue Veterans Memorials Glen Carbon FREEBURG Geneseo City Park Veterans Monument Freeburg Veterans 140 W. Pearl Street Honor Roll Park S. Main Street & S. Meridian Road Memorials, Doughboy GENEVA Statue & Artillery Piece Kane County Soldiers World War I Memorial Freeburg Village Square and Sailors Memorial, Doughboy Statue W. High & S. Belleville Streets (Honoring Emil Trentaz and Civil War Cannonball Harry G. Seaton) FREEPORT Display & 4.7-inch Guns Glen Carbon Cemetery All Veterans from the U.S.S. Center Street & W. Guy Avenue Memorial Park of New Orleans and the GLENDALE HEIGHTS Stephenson County U.S.S. Albany 2850 S. Walnut Road Old Kane County Courthouse Veterans Memorial Park 100 S. 3rd Street Bloomingdale Road & Northrop GT-38A-30-NO E. Fullerton Avenue Kane County Talon GOLCONDA Albertus Airport Veterans Memorial 1255 E. Airport Road Kane County Government Center Pope County 719 S. Batavia Avenue Veterans Memorial Soldier’s Monument Pope County Courthouse 15 N. Galena Avenue GENOA 310 E. Main Street Genoa Township Vietnam Memorial Veterans Memorial & 15 N. Galena Avenue Memorial Flame Genoa Veterans Home Brick Pavers GALATIA 311 S. Washington Street Pope County Courthouse 310 E. Main Street Veterans Memorial Genoa Township W. Main & Park Streets POW/MIA Memorial GRANDVIEW GALENA Genoa Veterans Home Grandview Township Blakely Cannon 311 S. Washington Street Veterans Honor Roll Grandview Town Hall Grant Park, 625 Park Avenue GEORGETOWN Clarksville Street & 73rd and 125th Illinois County Route 500 N. Civil War Monument Grant Park, 625 Park Avenue Volunteer Infantry Veterans Memorial War Memorial Grandview Cemetery Galena Veterans N. Main & Mill Streets Memorial Park County Route 625 E. South Main Street Georgetown Parade of (Clarksville Street)

Patriots Monument GRANITE CITY Napoleon Cannon Patriot Park Grant Park, 625 Park Avenue S. Main & E. West Streets Granite City Veterans Monument The Spanish Cannon World War II Memorial & City Hall, 2000 Edison Avenue Grant Park, 625 Park Avenue Georgetown All Other Granite City, Madison, Ulysses S. Grant Wars Memorial Mitchell, Nameoki, Monument War Memorial Park Grant Park, 625 Park Avenue N. Main & E. West Streets Pontoon Beach, Stallings, Venice GALESBURG GERMANTOWN Veterans Memorial Knox College Germantown Memorial Park World War I Memorial Veterans Memorial & Intersection of 21st Street, Madison & Niedringhaus Avenues Old Main, 1 E. South Street Artillery Piece (in front of building) Lake Park, Munster Street Republic F-84F-30-GK (on pathway near lake) GARDNER “Thunderstreak” GIRARD Wilson Park Village of Gardner 2900 Benton Street Veterans Memorial Union Civil War N. Center & E. Mazon Street Monument Girard Cemetery World War I Memorial, W. Center Street & Pleasant Hill Road 18 Herrin (VisitSI) BLUE STAR MEMORIAL HIGHWAYS

In 1944 at the end of World War II, a garden club began planting 8,000 Dogwood trees along a roadway as a living tribute to veterans. After completion, the highway was designated “Blue Star Drive.” The planting of roadside memorial gardens by state garden clubs quickly expanded and was adopted on a nationwide basis in 1946, by what is now known as the National Garden Clubs, Inc. They established the Blue Star Memorial Highway Program to create a “ribbon of living memorial plantings traversing every state” that originally consisted of one east-west and seven north-south highways. Each section of roadway contained a memorial landscaping project identified by a Blue Star Memorial Highway Marker. The Blue Star was utilized because of its use on banners and flags that hung in households during the war, signifying a family member was serving in battle. Since its inception, the club’s Blue Star program has established thousands of miles of dedicated highways across the country.

In 1951, the club expanded the program’s mission beyond Farmington Soldier and Sailor Memorial memorializing World War II veterans to include all men and women who had served, were serving, or would serve in GRANT PARK GREENFIELD the United States Armed Services. Today the program uses USMC Private First SP.5 Charles P. several different types of markers to honor service members Class Neil Aldridge Pohlman Vietnam and their families. Gold Star Families Memorial Markers were Memorial Bench Veteran Memorial added to honor families of service members who lost their Grant Park Police Department, Greenfield Lyons Park lives in combat. The Blue Star Memorial Marker and the Gold 100 E. Taylor Street State Route 276 (north of town) Star Families Memorial Marker can be placed in national Veteran’s Memorial GREENVIEW cemeteries, veterans’ medical centers, and other civic Grant Park Community Center Greenview War Memorial locations. The smaller Blue Star Memorial By-Way Marker 209 W. Dixie Highway City Park and the Gold Star Families Memorial By- GRAYVILLE N. Engle & E. Washington Streets Way Marker can be positioned in civic Grayville Veterans GREENVILLE gardens, parks, and at historical sites. Eternal Flame Memorial Bond County Grayville Police Department Civil War Illinois has more 101 S. Main Street Memorial than 140 Blue Star Main & 2nd Streets and Gold Star POW/MIA Memorial Grayville City Hall Families Markers 122 S. Court Street Bond County that pinpoint the

Revolutionary location of memorial Tank Display Soldiers Memorial Memorial Park landscaping projects Plaque across the state. For 126 Industrial Row Drive 200 W. College Avenue specific locations, GREAT LAKES Bond County visit gardenclub.org. McDonnell Douglas Veterans A-4D “Skyhawk” Memorial Memorial Aircraft Bond County Naval Station Great Lakes Courthouse 610 Farragut Avenue 3rd Street

“Women at the Great Bond County Lakes” World War I War of 1812 Memorial Memorial 200 W. College Avenue Naval Station Great Lakes Farragut Avenue enjoyillinois.com 19 HEYWORTH MIA Memorial E. Main & N. Willis Streets HICKORY HILLS Hickory Hills Veterans Memorial & 87th Avenue HIGHLAND Bell AH-1G-BF “Huey Cobra” & Lockheed T-33A-1-LO “Shooting Star” Highland Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5694 1900 VFW Road

Henry County Tourism Bureau Henry County Tourism Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Veterans Memorials, Geneseo 13214 Trestle Road

GRIDLEY HANOVER PARK HENNING HIGHLAND PARK Town of Gridley Veterans Memorial Plaza Henning War Memorial & “Freedom’s Sacrifice” Veterans Memorial Municipal Building, 2121 Lake Street Sergeant Joshua Troy Veterans Memorial Town Park Crippin Memorial Veterans Memorial Park HARTFORD Central & St. John’s Avenues N. Center & E. 3rd Streets Donald R. Lucas Memorial Park Veterans Memorial U.S. Highway 136 & N. Main Street GURNEE S. Old St. Louis Road & Veterans Memorial Park M47 Patton Tank W. Hawthorne Street World War II Dedication Marker American Legion Post 771 Veterans Memorial Park HARVEL Memorial Marker 749 Milwaukee Avenue Central & St. John’s Avenues Donald R. Lucas Memorial Park Harvel World War I U.S. Highway 136 & N. Main Street World War I Memorial Warren Township Memorial HENRY Memorial Park Memorial Harvel Cemetery Laurel & Prospect Avenues Esper Petersen Park N. 24th Avenue Captain John P. State Route 132 & Grand Avenue (head east, approximately Cromwell (USN) Medal HILLSBORO 1 mile to cemetery) HAMILTON of Honor Memorial American Revolution Village of Harvel Central Park Memorial POW/MIA Memorial 3rd Street (between E. Park Row & U.S. Highway 136 & State Route 96 Montgomery County Courthouse Veterans Memorial W. Park Row Streets) Village Hall 105 Courthouse Square HAMPSHIRE 201 N. Main Street “Still on Patrol” Civil War Cannon 155mm Howitzer War Memorial Montgomery County Courthouse Veterans Memorial Central Park 105 Courthouse Square Ralph H. Seyller Memorial Park Mason County 3rd Street 400 E. Jefferson Street Civil War Memorial (between E. Park Row & Veterans Memorial Mason County Courthouse W. Park Row Streets) S. Main & School Streets Grand Army of the 125 N. Plum Street Republic Civil War HERRIN HILLSIDE Soldiers and Sailors Mason County Bell AH-1G-BF Veterans Memorial & Monument Veterans Memorial Artillery Pieces Mason County Courthouse “Huey Cobra” Hampshire Center Cemetery Baker-Ladd Veterans of Foreign Queen of Heaven Cemetery 125 N. Plum Street County Highway 36 Wars Post 1567 1400 S. Wolf Road (between Kelly & Allen Roads) 309 N. 16th Street Mason County HINES World War II Hampshire World War I Memorial World War I Memorial – American Legion Honor Roll Mason County Courthouse 125 N. Plum Street Spirit of the American Auxiliary DuPage Ralph H. Seyller Memorial Park Doughboy Statue County Memorial 400 E. Jefferson Street Mason County Herrin City Park Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans HANOVER World War II Memorial Park Avenue & Adams Street Administration Hospital 5000 5th Avenue Mason County Courthouse HERSCHER Hanover Veterans 125 N. Plum Street Memorial World War I Memorial George Dilboy Memorial 7900 Jefferson Street Village Park Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans (State Route 84) E. Front & N. Maple Streets Administration Hospital Building 217 8th Avenue 20 Hines Hospital Homewood Korean and HUNTLEY ITASCA World War I Vietnam War Memorial Huntley Gold Star Usher Memorial Park Memorial Fountain Veterans Park Veterans Memorial 200 S. Walnut Street Harwood Avenue & Olive Road City Park, Main & Church Streets Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans JACKSONVILLE Administration Hospital 5000 5th Avenue Homewood Veterans Huntley Veterans Civil War Monument Memorial & City Square, State & Main Streets (at old hospital administration Memorial building) Artillery Piece American Legion Post 673 Veterans Park 11712 Coral Street Korean War Memorial Operation Iraqi Harwood Avenue & Olive Road Community Park Freedom Memorial Huntley Veterans S. Main & E. Superior Streets Homewood World War I Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans Memorial Morgan County Soldiers Administration Hospital Veterans Memorial City Park, Main & Church Streets At main entrance to hospital Veterans Park of 1812 Memorial Harwood Avenue & Olive Road Huntley World War I Morgan County Courthouse 300 W. State Street Veterans Memorial Soldiers Memorial Edward Hines, Jr. Veterans Homewood World War II City Park, Main & Church Streets Administration Hospital Veterans Memorial Morgan County Building 217, 8th Avenue Veterans Park HURST Vietnam Memorial Harwood Avenue & Olive Road Hurst Veterans Memorial Nichols Park HINSDALE 720 E. Vandalia Road Hurst City Park Hinsdale Victory HOOPESTON 111 Roosevelt Street Morgan County Sculpture Hoopeston Dedicated World War I Hinsdale Memorial Building to the Fallen Heroes ILLINOIS CITY Memorial Gates 19 E. Memorial Veterans Memorial State Route 92 & 238th Street W. Central Park Plaza Entrance HODGKINS McFerren Park N. Sandy Street S. Dixie Highway & W. Elm Street ILLIOPOLIS Hodgkins Veterans Operation Desert Shield/ HOPEDALE Memorial American Legion Post 508 Storm Memorial Hodgkins Village Hall Hopedale Area Veterans Memorial & Community Park Lyons Street & Wenz Avenue Veterans Memorial Artillery Piece S. Main Street & Morton Avenue

HOMETOWN Hopedale Medical Complex Wabash Park, 549 Mary Street 107 Tremont Street POW/MIA Memorial Hometown Veterans INDIANOLA Nichols Park HULL 720 E. Vandalia Road Memorial, Eternal Flame Indianola Veterans & Artillery Piece Hull Community Honor Roll Memorial World War I Memorial Patterson Park Indianola Public Park Veterans Memorial Community Park S. Pulaski Road & S. Main Street Hull & Dixie Streets North & Vermilion Streets S. Main & E. Superior Streets HOMEWOOD World War I and II INDUSTRY JERSEYVILLE Homewood Memorial War Memorial Jersey County Civil War Memorial City Park, Elm & Gray Streets W. Main Street Veterans Park War Memorial Harwood Avenue & Olive Road HUME IPAVA Hume Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial 201 W. Pearl Street Front & Center Streets Veterans Park JOHNSTON CITY Fulton & Main Streets Fallen Soldier Veterans World War I and II Memorial Wall Memorial E. Broadway Boulevard & Veterans Park Main Avenue Fulton & Main Streets JOLIET IRVING Civil War Memorial Oakwood Cemetery 1137 E. Cass Street Irving City Park Pine & Central Streets Eternal Flame – Veterans Memorial & Will County Artillery Piece Veterans Memorial City Hall, 110 E. State Street Will County Courthouse 14 W. Jefferson Street ISLAND LAKE Veteran’s Memorial Park & Bell AH-1F-BF “Huey Cobra” Clark County Veterans Memorial, Marshall 422 W. State Road enjoyillinois.com 21 KENNEY LANARK Turnbridge Township Lanark Veterans Veterans Memorial Memorial N. Johnston & E. Crosley Streets City Cemetery & Veteran’s Memorial Park KEWANEE U.S. Highway 52 & S. School Drive Veterans Park Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Lanark World War I 401 E. Third Street Honor Roll City Cemetery & Veteran’s KIRKLAND Memorial Park U.S. Highway 52 & S. School Drive Veterans Memorial LANSING Franklin Township Park 201 3rd Street Lansing Veterans Memorial & Bell UH-1 LA GRANGE “Iroquois (Huey)” La Grange World War I Lansing Municipal Airport Memorial Trees & Glenwood Lansing Road & Plaques Burnham Avenue Lyons Township High School LAWRENCEVILLE 143 S. Brainard Avenue World War II Memorial Quincy Area CVB Robert E. Coulter, Jr. Honor Roll Operation Iraqi Freedom Memorial, Quincy American Legion and Lawrence County Courthouse Auxiliary Post 1941 1100 State Street Joliet Township Central Kaneville Honor Roll Veterans Memorial LE ROY High School Doughboy 2S101 Harter Road American Legion Post 1941 900 S. La Grange Road Wall of Honor Statue Memorial KANKAKEE American Legion Post 79 Herkimer & E. Van Buren Streets LA GRANGE PARK 100 N. Main Street (at top of entrance stairs) Aroma Park American Legion Post 1019 La Grange Park LEAF RIVER Joliet Veteran’s Memorial, Bell UH-1H-BF Veterans Memorial Leaf River Veterans Memorial “Iroquois (Huey)” & Memorial Park Bicentennial Park Sherwood Road & E. Oak Avenue Memorial & U.S. Highway 30 & Bluff Street Emerson Electric Artillery Piece MGR-3 “Little John” LACON Leaf River Historical Museum M48 Patton Tank & Army Missile Veterans Memorial & 203 E. 3rd Street 739 S. Sandbar Road Artillery Piece M60A3 TTS 1977 LENA Black Road & Barthelme Avenue Kankakee Chrysler Combat Tank Lena Veterans Memorial Sergeant Sator Sierra Civil War Memorial Marshall County Courthouse Lena Burial Park 122 N. Prairie Street Sanchez Memorial Kankakee County Courthouse Church & E. Mason Streets Collins & Ohio Streets 450 E. Court Street LADD LERNA St. John the Baptist Kankakee Flag Memorial Veterans Memorials & Parish War Memorial Kankakee County Courthouse Tank Cemetery War Memorial W. Division & N. Hickory Streets 450 E. Court Street S. Main Street Thomas Lincoln Cemetery (between E. Cleveland & 12988 E. Lincoln Highway Road Will County Riverside Hospital War E. Locust Streets) Civil War Memorial Memorial & Colonel LEWISTOWN LAKE BLUFF Will County Courthouse James Kasler Memorial 37mm Hotchkiss 14 W. Jefferson Street Riverside Hospital Lake Bluff 350 N. Wall Street Revolving Cannon JUSTICE World War I and II Fulton County Courthouse KANSAS Memorial 100 N. Main Street Veterans Memorial & Lake Bluff Village Green Artillery Pieces Veterans Memorial E. Scranton & E. Center Streets Fulton County Lithuanian National Cemetery (World War I, World War II & Vietnam) LAKE FOREST Revolutionary War 8201 S. Kean Avenue Memorial Kansas Village Park, State Route 16 Lake Forest World War I KANEVILLE (Front & Jefferson Streets) Fulton County Courthouse Memorial Flagpole 100 N. Main Street Kaneville Cemetery KENILWORTH N. Western Avenue & Market Square Fulton County Veterans Memorial Kenilworth World War I (World War II 8-inch Howitzer) World War I Veterans Memorial 46W460 Main Street Memorial Tree Ring Memorial Porter Park 410 Kenilworth Avenue 117 E. Deerpath Road E. Lincoln Avenue & S. Main Street

22 Fulton County Lockport World War II Macomb Veterans of MANCHESTER World War I and II Veterans Memorial Foreign Wars Honor Roll American Revolutionary Memorial Lockport City Hall Macomb Veterans of Foreign Wars War Memorial 222 E. 9th Street Post 1921 Fulton County Courthouse City Park, Main Street 100 N. Main Street 1200 E. Jefferson Street Veterans Memorial MANITO LEXINGTON Lockport Cemetery McDonough County Manito World War I 518 Civil War Memorial Lexington Community Chandler Park, N. Lafayette Street Memorial War Memorial LOMBARD E. State & S. Washington Streets W. Main & Vine Streets World War II & Vietnam McDonough County MANTENO Honor Roll LINCOLN War Honor Roll of Veterans Memorial & Lombard Citizens Chandler Park, E. Carroll Street Centennial Park Lombard Village Hall Cannons Manteno Post 755 Legion Park War Memorial 255 E. Wilson Avenue (inside) Soldiers’ Memorial N. Chicago & Broadway Streets Western Illinois University W. 3rd & Main Streets MILLS University Circle Drive Civil War Cannon MARION Logan County Courthouse Veterans Memorial Western Illinois University Memorial to the 601 Broadway Street Riverside Park Memorial Tree Grove 2nd & S. Water Streets Soldiers of the Western Illinois University American Revolution Civil War Monument LONGVIEW University Circle Drive & Logan County Courthouse Simpkins Circle Buried in Williamson 601 Broadway Street Longview Community (follow unnamed drive at County, Illinois Honor Roll intersection of these streets, Williamson County Courthouse POW/MIA Memorial E. Logan & Sherman Streets memorial is on the right) 200 W. Jefferson Street (inside) Heritage in Flight Museum Weekdays 8am-4pm 1351 Airport Road # 1 LOUISVILLE MAHOMET Clay County Mahomet Township Rosehill Veterans World War I and II Memorial Memorial Veterans Memorial Memorial Clay County Courthouse Riverside Cemetery Rosehill Cemetery Heritage in Flight Museum 216 W. McDonald Street 1351 Airport Road # 1 300 Broadway Street State Route 47 LISLE LOVES PARK Veterans Memorial American Gold Star Jefferson County War Memorial, Mt. Vernon Lisle Community Park Mothers Monument Access via Short Street Arthur W. Anderson Peace Park (take walking path along 100 Heart Boulevard east branch of DuPage River to memorial) Field of Honor Memorial Arthur W. Anderson Peace Park LITCHFIELD 100 Heart Boulevard

Litchfield Area Veterans Korean War Memorial Memorial & Cannon Arthur W. Anderson Peace Park Litchfield Carnegie Library Park 100 Heart Boulevard 400 N. State Street LYONS Litchfield Veterans’ Lyons World War I Memorial Garden & Memorial & Memorial Litchfield Carnegie Library Park Artillery Pieces Village of Lyons Waterworks 400 N. State Street 7824 W. Ogden Avenue LOCKPORT MACOMB Citizens of Lockport Civil War Cannon War Memorial Chandler Park, E. Carroll Street 222 E. 9th Street Flags of Love Lockport Veterans Memorial Bricks Millennium Memorial, Chandler Park, E. Carroll Street Artillery Piece & Tank 15052 Archer Avenue Macomb American Legion Memorial Lockport Works Macomb American Legion Post 6 World War II Memorial 221 E. Washington Street Lockport Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5788 1026 E. 9th Street enjoyillinois.com 23 Veterans Airport of MILLEDGEVILLE Southern Illinois Milledgeville Veterans 10400 Terminal Drive Memorial (display inside airport) E. 8th Street (next to high school) Veterans of Foreign Wars MINIER Vietnam Memorial & Veterans Memorial Park Tank N. Maine Avenue & Park Street Marion Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1301 MINONK 201 E. Longstreet Road Minonk Veterans Williamson County Memorial E. 5th & N. Chestnut Streets Memorial Old Town Square MINOOKA 1102 Tower Square Plaza Veterans Memorial MARISSA Veterans Park Chicago Remembers Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Chicago 102 E. Mondamin Street Veterans Memorial South Park MOKENA S. Main Street & W. St. Clair Street MASCOUTAH MENDOTA M5 3-inch Anti-Tank MARK Veterans Memorial Forever Honored – Gun Memorial Veterans War Memorial & Mascoutah City Cemetery Forever Mourned Pioneer Cemetery Denny Avenue & Wolf Road Bell AH-1G-BF Lake Road Memorial “Huey Cobra” MASON Mendota Museum & Mokena Operation Iraqi Veterans War Memorial Park Historical Society G.A.R. Memorial 901 Washington Street Freedom Memorial S. Milwaukee & Elliot Streets Front & Division Streets Union Cemetery, N. 925th Street World War I MARKHAM MATTOON William Martin Veterans Veterans of Foreign Memorial Fountain Veterans Memorial Wall Mendota Museum & of Foreign Wars Post 725 Wars Post 9801 Lake Land College, Podestá Park Historical Society Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Podestá Drive & Cemetery Road 901 Washington Street St. John’s Cemetery Veterans of Foreign Wars (near the south entrance 20201 S. Wolf Road Post 9801 of campus) MEREDOSIA MOLINE 3220 W. Meredosia Honor Roll World War I Memorial Main & S. Marion Streets Moline High School MARSEILLES Dodge Grove Cemetery World War I 917 N. 22nd Street Illinois Fallen Soldier MERRIONETTE PARK Memorial Plaque Tree Memorial MAYWOOD Merrionette Park 3600 Avenue of the Cities (White Oak Memorial Forest) Maywood Park Veterans Veterans Memorial Merrionette Park Police Department Moline World War I 2660 E. 2350th Road Memorial “Remember 11750 S. Kedzie Avenue Memorial Bataan” & Tank Moline Township Activity Center Middle East Conflicts Maywood Park METAMORA 19th Street & 7th Avenue Wall Memorial S. & Oak Street Metamora Honor Roll Marseilles Memorial Park MOMENCE Village Square 200 Riverfront Drive Maywood World War I E. Mt. Vernon Street Admiral Jeremy Michael Memorial & World War I MARSHALL (between N. Menard & Boorda Memorial British Artillery Piece N. Davenport Streets) Conrad Park Clark County Maywood Park Mill Street & Dixie Highway Veterans Memorial S. 1st Avenue & Oak Street METROPOLIS Clark County Courthouse Air Force Colonel McLEANSBORO Massac County Vietnam 501 Archer Avenue Veterans Memorial & James H. Kasler Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Home Memorial Veterans Memorial McLeansboro County Courthouse 8993 E. 1500N Road S. Michigan Avenue & Pine Street Washington & Market Streets Plaque Massac County Courthouse Civil War Soldier MARTINSVILLE MECHANICSBURG 1 Superman Square Monument Veterans Memorial & Mechanicsburg MILFORD W. 4th Street & Dixie Highway Artillery Piece War Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Memorial Park Milford War Memorial Kasler Veterans E. Jones Street & S. West Avenue E. Cumberland & N. Mill Streets W. Main Street Memorial (between 3rd Cross & Republic/Ford JB-2 Kasler Veterans Memorial Park 2nd Cross Streets) W. Second & Virden Streets “Loon” (V-1 Buzz Bomb) Community Park 24 74 County Road 2310 E. Veterans Memorial MORRISON Railroad Depot Museum Veterans Memorial & 691 N. Dixie Highway Howitzer MONMOUTH Veterans Park, E. High Street (by Grove Hill Cemetery) Warren County War Memorial MORTON GROVE Warren County Courthouse American Legion 100 W. Broadway Post 134 Memorial & MONROE CENTER World War I Monroe Center Field Artillery Piece American Legion Memorial Veterans Memorial Civic Center Village Cemetery 6140 W. State Route 72 MONTICELLO Veterans’ Memorial Grove Piatt County Morton Grove Park District Veterans Memorial 6834 Dempster Street Piatt County Courthouse THE GOLDEN THIRTEEN W. Main & N. Charter Streets World War I Memorial & Doughboy Statue In 1987, Naval Station Great Lakes in Great Lakes, Illinois, MONTROSE Morton Grove Public Library dedicated the recruit inprocessing facility as “The Golden A Salute to All 6140 Lincoln Avenue Thirteen” to honor the U.S. Navy’s first active duty African Veterans Memorial MOUND CITY American officers. Spring Creek Road & E. Oak Avenue Civil War Bell MORRIS Walnut Street & Park Avenue At the beginning of World War II, only .55 percent of

Grundy County enlisted sailors were African American. The draft quickly Pulaski County Civil War Monument changed this as thousands of African American men Grundy County Courthouse World War I Memorial enlisted. Increasing political pressures demonstrated Walnut Street & Park Avenue 111 E. Washington Street the need for more opportunities for the new recruits and

officers to lead them. Grundy County Korean World War II and Vietnam Memorial Memorial Honor Roll Walnut Street & Park Avenue To meet the demand for African American officers, an Grundy County Courthouse accelerated training course was instituted at Naval Station 111 E. Washington Street MOUNDS Great Lakes. Sixteen qualified candidates were selected Grundy County Pulaski County and began training in January 1944. With an understanding World War I Memorial Vietnam Veterans of the historic importance of their endeavor, the group Grundy County Courthouse Memorial worked together and all 16 passed. In March 1944, 12 were 111 E. Washington Street Pulaski County Veterans of commissioned as ensigns and 1 as a warrant officer. Foreign Wars Post 8891 316 S. Blanche Street

During training and after graduation they continued to face segregation and racial discrimination. Even after becoming officers, they were never assigned to ships during battle and were only allowed to lead African American sailors.

The Golden Thirteen were pioneers who helped begin the process of racial integration in the Navy and opened the door to all who followed in their footsteps.

Photograph taken on March 17, 1944. Courtesy of Surface Warfare Magazine, 1982. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Image (bottom row, left to right): Ensign James E. Hare, USNR; Ensign Samuel E. Barnes, USNR; Ensign George C. Cooper, USNR; Ensign William S. White, USNR; Ensign Dennis D. Nelson, USNR; (middle row, left to right): Ensign Graham E. Martin, USNR; Warrant Officer Charles B. Lear, USNR; Ensign Phillip G. Barnes, USNR; Ensign Reginald E. Goodwin, USNR; (top row, left to right): Ensign John W. Reagan, USNR; Ensign Jesse W. Arbor, USNR; Ensign Dalton L. Baugh, USNR; Ensign Frank E. Sublett, USNR. Effingham County Museum A Salute to All Veterans Memorial, Montrose enjoyillinois.com 25 Pulaski County NEOGA World War I Memorial & Neoga Veterans Anti-Aircraft Artillery Memorial Park & Cannon Pulaski County Veterans of Jennings Park, 600 Park Avenue Foreign Wars Post 8891 316 S. Blanche Street Veterans Memorial Oak Avenue MT. AUBURN (between E. 6th & E. 7th Streets) Mt. Auburn NEW DOUGLAS Veterans Memorial Community Park New Douglas W. Main & S. Broad Streets World War I Memorial 205 N. 7th Street MT. CARMEL NEW HAVEN Wabash County Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Vine & Mill Streets Wabash County Courthouse 401 N. Market Street NEW LENOX MT. CARROLL Edgar County Honor Roll, Paris Harry E. Anderson Mt. Carroll Civil War Veterans of Foreign Monument, Artillery & Mt. Vernon Women Soldiers and Sailors Wars Post 9545 Cannonballs Veterans Memorial of Du Page County Veterans Memorial Carroll County Courthouse C.E. Brehm Memorial Library Memorial Maplewood Cemetery N. Main & E. Market Streets Broadway & 7th Streets Central Park, 104 E. Benton Avenue 337 W. Haven Avenue

Mt. Carroll The Jefferson County Spirit of the American M60A3 Tank Memorial Veterans Memorial Hall of Honor Tom E. Hartung American Legion Doughboy – World War I Post 1977 Carroll County Courthouse 100 Aviation Drive Memorial 14414 Ford Drive N. Clay & E. Market Streets Veterans Memorial Burlington Square Park & Center Street New Lenox MT. MORRIS Oakwood Cemetery Veterans Memorial Mt. Morris Veterans Broadway Street Spirit of the American (enter near S. 24th Street) New Lenox Village Hall Memorial Fountain Navy – World War II 1 Veterans Parkway College Campus Village Square MULBERRY GROVE Memorial NEWTON Wesley Avenue & Main Street Mulberry Grove Burlington Square Park North Avenue & Center Street MT. OLIVE Graduates Vietnam Jasper County Veterans Memorial & Veterans of Foreign Memorial Veterans Memorial Artillery Piece Wars Post 5790 Mulberry Grove Junior/Senior Naperville Cemetery High School 705 S. Washington Street Jasper County Courthouse Veterans Memorial 801 W. Wall Street (west end of cemetery) 204 W. Washington Street 21294 State Route 138 Jasper County Veterans MT. PULASKI Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Marker & M60A3 Tank Saints Peter & Paul Cemetery Of All Wars Memorial Vietnam War Memorial Mulberry Grove American Legion 911 North Avenue Jasper County Courthouse Mt. Pulaski Courthouse 204 W. Washington Street Post 1180 113 S. Washington Street Maple Street & Colburn Drive Veterans Park & Memorial POW/MIA Memorial MT. STERLING NAPERVILLE 303 E. Gartner Road Jasper County Courthouse Brown County 204 W. Washington Street Fallen Soldier Memorial NAPLATE Veterans Memorial Exchange Club Veterans Plaza NILES E. Main Street & S. Capitol Avenue Jackson Avenue & Webster Street Naplate Memorial (on Naperville River Walk) Flagpole Polish-American MT. VERNON Naplate Fire Department World War I Monument Jefferson County John Dudley 2000 Ottawa Avenue St. Adalbert Cemetery

Veterans Memorial & Revolutionary War 6800 N. Milwaukee Avenue Naplate Veterans Tribute Cannon Veteran Memorial NOKOMIS Veterans Memorial Park Naperville Cemetery Fountain and Pavers 27th & Logan Streets 705 S. Washington Street Vittone Park Nokomis War Memorial, Ottawa & 19th Avenues Tank & Artillery Piece North Central College Nokomis Community Memorial Park Jefferson County NAUVOO War Memorial World War I Memorial Memorial Park Drive & 10th & Main Streets North Central College Nauvoo Area N. Cedar Street Pfeiffer Hall, 310 E. Benton Avenue Veterans Memorial Stone Arch Bridge Scenic Turnout State Route 96 26 NORMAL Veterans Memorial OAKLAND World War I Illinois State University Chapel Hill Gardens South Cemetery Oakland Civil War Memorial Plaque Word War I Memorial 11333 South Central Avenue Veterans Memorial Old City Hall 255 N. Lincoln Avenue Illinois State University OAK PARK Centennial Park 304 S. University Street W. Main & N. Pike Streets Gold Star Men Memorial OGLESBY NORRIS CITY Andersen Park World War I – 7.7cm 205 Bell Huey Helicopter 824 N. Hayes Avenue Veterans Memorial German Feldkanone Memorial Park Jordan & Woodland Streets International Order of Gold Star Men Memorial 16 Field Gun Odd Fellows Cemetery Field Park, 935 Woodbine Avenue Centennial Park Industrial Park Road & W. Main & N. Pike Streets Daughters of the County Road 200 E. American Revolution Gold Star Men memorial Longfellow Park World War I American Memorial Plaque and Veterans Monument 610 S. Ridgeland Avenue Red Cross Nurse Soldiers Flag Staff Memorial Library 603 S. Division Street and Sailors Memorial Gold Star Men Memorial Centennial Park 2668 E. 875th Road NORTH AURORA Stevenson Park, 49 Lake Street W. Main & N. Pike Streets (marker at summit of Starved Rock) (Stevenson Center entrance) North Aurora OAKWOOD Korean War Memorial Veterans Memorial Soldiers and Sailors Oakwood Veterans Memorial Park Fairview Drive & Willow Way World War Monument – Jordan & Woodland Streets Memorial “Peace Triumphant” E. South Main & S. Scott Streets NORTH CHICAGO Scoville Park, 800 Lake Street Vietnam Veterans World War II Memorial, OBLONG Memorial Golden 13 Memorial & Spanish-American War, Memorial Park POW/MIA Memorial Jordan & Woodland Streets Dorie Miller Memorial Philippine Insurrection & Oblong Municipal Building Veterans Memorial Park Boxer Uprising in China 202 S. Range Street World War I Cannon Sheridan Boulevard & 18th Street Memorial Memorial Park Ridgeland Common Recreation O’FALLON Jordan & Woodland Streets NORTH RIVERSIDE Complex, 415 Lake Street O’Fallon Veterans Private First Class World War I Soldiers and World War I Honor Roll Christopher A. Sisson O’Fallon Fire Rescue Sailors Monument Gold Star Memorial Engine House #1 Memorial Park Memorial Carroll Park Commons Park 106 E. Washington Street Jordan & Woodland Streets 1125 S. Kenilworth Avenue 2401 S. Des Plaines Avenue O’Fallon Veterans’ World War II Memorial World War II Memorial Veterans Memorial Monument Memorial Park Scoville Park, 800 Lake Street Jordan & Woodland Streets Plaque & Gazebo 737 E. Wesley Drive Commons Park 2401 S. Des Plaines Avenue Illinois Veterans’ Home, Quincy

Veterans Park Veterans Memorial Veterans Park 7550 W. 26th Street NORTHBROOK Northbrook Veterans Memorial Garden Village Green Shermer & Meadow Roads OAK FOREST Oak Forest Veterans Memorial 15440 S. Central Avenue OAK LAWN Oak Lawn Tank Memorial Site W. 95th Street (near 50th Court)

Oak Lawn Veterans Memorial 9427 Raymond Avenue

(behind Oak Lawn Public Library) Quincy Area CVB

enjoyillinois.com 27 OLNEY OREGON PALESTINE Lockheed T-33A-1-LO Richland County Ogle County Soldiers AMVETS Post 33 “Shooting Star” Veterans Memorial and Sailors Memorial Memorial American Legion Post 211 Richland County Courthouse Courthouse Square AMVETS Post 33 1031 N. Main Street 103 W. Main Street 105 S. 5th Street 201 S. Main Street PARK RIDGE Richland County Oregon’s War Memorial /Afghanistan Park Ridge World War I Memorial Courthouse Square Veterans Memorial World War II Memorial 105 S. 5th Street Richland County Courthouse Village Hall Trees and Plaque 103 W. Main Street S. Main & W. Harrison Streets The Soldiers’ Monument South Park, 833 W. Talcott Road PALOS HEIGHTS PAWNEE S. 4th Street Palos Heights 9/11 & Pawnee Veterans ORLAND HILLS Veterans Memorial Memorial Orland Hills Memorial Park Village Park 7607 W. College Drive Veterans Memorial Douglas & 7th Streets Kelly Park, 16553 S. Haven Avenue PALOS HILLS PEARL CITY ORLAND PARK Palos Hills Blackhawk War Captain Ronald L. Zinn Veterans Memorial Monument 8455 W. 103rd Street Memorial Blackhawk Battlefield Park Captain Ronald L. Zinn Memorial PALOS PARK (Kellogg’s Grove) 14109 W. Black Hawk Road Garden, Orland Park Vet Center 8651 W. 159th Street Village of Palos Park Veterans of Foreign Pearl City Veterans Village of Orland Park Wars Memorial & Memorial Garden Veterans Memorial “Ara Blue Star Marker Highland Cemetery Pace – Place of Peace” Village Green, 8901 W. 123rd Street State Route 73 (north end of city) 14700 S. Ravinia Avenue PANA PEKIN OSWEGO Pana World War I McDonnell Douglas Veterans Memorial Walk Memorial & F-4C-25-MC “Phantom II” 33 Jefferson Street (AF 64-0911) Veterans Memorials Kitchell Park Pekin Municipal Airport Veterans Park E. 9th & Kitchell Streets 13906 Airport Lane Adams Street (northern section of Hudson Crossing Park) PARIS PEORIA OTTAWA Edgar County Cemetery Averyville : Memorial LaSalle County Civil War 3300 N. Grandview Drive Soldiers Memorial (Civil War, World War I, World War II & Korea) Washington Square Park Illinois Air National Edgar County Cemetery Jackson & Columbus Streets 629 Young Street Guard – 182nd Airlift

LaSalle County Wing Aircraft Display: Edgar County Honor Roll Cessna O-2A-CE “Super Veterans Memorial Skymaster” (AF 68-11160, c/n Washington Square Park N. Main Street 337M-0385), Cessna A-37B W. Lafayette Street (between W. Court & “Dragonfly” (AF 69-6428, c/n LaSalle County W. Wood Streets) 43273), General Dynamics F-16B Block 15N “Fighting World War I Memorial Edgar County Falcon” (AF 82-1042, c/n 62- (German Krupp 7.7cm Field Gun) Revolutionary War 108), General Motors F-84F-1-GK Ottawa American Legion Post 33 “Thunderstreak” (AF 51-9313) & LaSalle & W. Jackson Streets Memorial Edgar County Courthouse Lockheed C-130E “Hercules” PALATINE N. Main Street (AF 63-7877, c/n 382-3948) 2416 S. Falcon Boulevard “In Freedom’s Cause” Edgar County World War I Veterans Veterans Memorial Manitowoc Submarines Memorial & Kiwanis Memorial Park Memorial Artillery Piece U.S. Highway 150 to Circle Drive Riverfront Park, SW Water Street (near Harrison Street) Palatine American Legion Post 690, 122 W. Palatine Road Korean War Veterans Memorial Military Services 13506 State Route 1 Memorial Plaza Riverfront Park G.A.R Memorial, Mason 200 NE Water Street Effingham County Museum 28 Pike County Veterans Memorial Pike County Courthouse 100 E. Washington Street

Pike County’s Union Soldiers War Memorial Plaque Pike County Courthouse 100 E. Washington Street

The 99th Illinois Infantry War Memorial 492nd Street & 250th Avenue PLAINFIELD Plainfield Area Civil War Memorial Hough Funeral Homes, LTD 15421 S. State Route 59 Village of Harvel Veterans Memorial, Harvel PLEASANT PLAINS Soldiers and Sailors of Peoria County Cartwright Township World War I and II Doughboy Memorial Veterans Memorial Pleasant Plains City Hall Peoria County Courthouse 200 E. 4th Street Hamilton Boulevard & POCAHONTAS Adams Street Pocahontas Waterborn Services Veterans Memorial Memorial City Park, State & Park Streets HERO STREET USA Riverfront Park, SW Water Street Since the 1920s, Hero Street USA, in Silvis, Illinois, has PERRY Afghanistan and Iraq seen more than 100 of its young men and women join the Wall of Honor Veterans Memorial W. Main & N. Ann Streets Livingston County Courthouse United States Armed Forces. This neighborhood, a short, W. Madison & N. Mill Streets one and a half blocks originally known as Second Street, PESOTUM was established by a group of Mexican American workers Veterans Memorial Livingston County from the Rock Island Railroad line. When World War II S. Chestnut Street & Civil War Memorial broke out, many residents joined the military. According U.S. Highway 45 Livingston County Courthouse W. Madison & N. Main Streets to The Department of Defense in Washington, D.C., PETERSBURG “there is no other street of comparable size that has had Veterans Memorial Livingston County as many men and women render service to the Armed Menard County Courthouse Desert Storm Forces of the United States.” In honor of the contributions 102 S. 7th Street Veterans Memorial of these young Americans, the street was renamed Hero Livingston County Courthouse Street USA in May 1967. PINCKNEYVILLE N. Mill & W. Washington Streets Lockheed T-33A-1-LO “Shooting Star” Livingston County Eight service men from this neighborhood gave their lives Perry County Fairgrounds Grand Army of the in World War II and the Korean War: Carlo Soliz, Frank Fairground & County Roads Republic Civil War Sandoval, Joseph Gomez, Johnny Munos, Joe Sandoval,

Memorial Peter Masias, Tony Pompa and William Perry County Southside Cemetery Sandoval. In 1971, a city park was built Veterans Memorial E. South & Locust Streets and dedicated as Hero Street Memorial Perry County Courthouse (near entrance) 1 Public Square Park to honor their courage and Livingston County sacrifice. A large monument also was PITTSFIELD Korean War and erected at the entrance to Hero Street American Legion Post 152 Vietnam War Memorial USA as a tribute to the eight heroes Soldiers and Sailors Livingston County Courthouse who perished and to all veterans who N. Mill & W. Washington Streets Memorial & Mortar Round have answered the call. 1302 Washington Street

Image: Hero Street USA Monument * Rock Island Arsenal is an active military installation and requires visitors to access via the Moline Gate and obtain a visitor pass. Visit arsenalhistoricalsociety.org for details. enjoyillinois.com 29 RANKIN U. S. Grant Post 26 Rankin Veterans Grand Army of the Memorial Monument Republic Monument 226 N. Main Street Elmwood Cemetery 2905 Thatcher Avenue RANSOM Civil War Memorial & Washington Post 573 Cannon Grand Army of the Allen Cemetery, W. 26th Road Republic Monument Elmwood Cemetery Ransom War Memorial 2905 Thatcher Avenue (section 41) N. Lincoln Street (near U.S. Post Office) RIVERSIDE RAYMOND Gold Star Memorial Guthrie Park Veterans Memorial Bloomingbank Road & Raymond Park, McGowan Street E. Quincy Street

Veterans Memorial & Riverside Veterans Artillery Piece Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Guthrie Park Springfield Road Bloomingbank Road & E. Quincy Street World War I Memorial Veterans Memorial Park RIVERTON

Quincy Area CVB Springfield Road Clear Lake Township Tanks, Helicopter & Artillery Piece, Quincy RIDGE FARM Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Veterans Memorial & E. Lincoln & N. 3rd Streets Livingston County Prophetstown Mural Spanish-American World War I and II Veteran’s Memorial Park ROANOKE War Memorial Memorial Mural N. State Street Roanoke Community Chautauqua Park E. 3rd & Washington Streets (between W. Woodyard Avenue & 100 E. Park Street W. Owen Street) Veterans Memorial Intersection of W. Husseman, (near S. Riverview Drive) QUINCY RIVER FOREST N. Jefferson & W. Davison Streets Adams County Korean Livingston County War Memorial Grand Army of the ROBINSON World War I Memorial Illinois Veterans’ Home Republic Memorial Livingston County Courthouse Crawford County 1707 N. 12th Street Woods Patriots Memorial & N. Mill Street Forest Preserves of Cook County Adams County Cannon Livingston County Washington Boulevard & Vietnam Memorial Thatcher Avenue Crawford County Courthouse World War II Memorial 100 Douglas Street Illinois Veterans’ Home Livingston County Courthouse River Forest 1707 N. 12th Street Crawford County N. Mill Street World War I and Adams County Veterans Memorial Pontiac Veterans World War II Memorial Crawford County Courthouse World War II Memorial Memorial Parkway Memorial 100 Douglas Street Illinois Veterans’ Home Lake Street & Lathrop Avenue Southside Cemetery 1707 N. 12th Street E. South & Locust Streets River Forest World War I Veterans of Foreign Eternal Flame Honoring Wars Post 4549 POSEN Memorial Honor Roll World War I Veterans Trailside Museum of Natural History Veterans Memorial, Posen American Illinois Veterans’ Home 738 Thatcher Avenue Memorial Wall & Legion Post 990 1707 N. 12th Street POW/MIA Memorial Memorial Flagpole RIVER GROVE 712 E. Main Street Operation Iraqi 2590 Walter Zimny Drive Assyrian AMVETS Freedom Memorial ROCHELLE POTOMAC Illinois Veterans’ Home Memorial Elmwood Cemetery Atwood Park 1707 N. 12th Street Potomac War Memorial 2905 Thatcher Avenue Veterans Memorials U.S. Highway 136 Tanks, Helicopter & (south side, section 45) Atwood Park 20th Street & 10th Avenue PROPHETSTOWN Artillery Piece Hellenic American Illinois Veterans’ Home Memorial Archway & Prophetstown Civil War 1707 N. 12th Street Veterans Memorial Monument & Cannon Elmwood Cemetery Artillery Piece 2905 Thatcher Avenue Washington Street & RAMSEY Memorial Park Riverside Drive Avenue C & Avenue D Veterans Memorial Wall American Legion, 120 5th Street 30 Veterans Memorial ROSELLE Lawnridge Cemetery Roselle Veteran’s 8th Avenue Memorial ROCK ISLAND Veteran’s Memorial Park Park Street & Irving Park Road Display of Artillery & Tanks* ROSEMONT Rock Island Arsenal Veterans Memorial Memorial Park, Rodman Avenue Stephens North Park 1700 W. Higgins Avenue Memorial Walkway* (contains more than ROSEVILLE 30 monuments) Rock Island Arsenal Veterans Memorial Lawson Babbitt American Legion Rock Island National Cemetery Post 614 Goetsch Drive 175 W. Penn Avenue POW/MIA Memorial* ROSSVILLE Rock Island Arsenal Rock Island National Cemetery In Honor Of Those Who Goetsch Drive to Memorial Walkway Served – Rossville War

Memorial Women Veterans S. Chicago & Dale Avenues Memorial* Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island ROUND LAKE National Cemetery, Building 118 Ling-Temco-Vought ROCKFORD A-7A-4B-CV “Corsair II” American Legion Post 1170 Camp Fuller Stone 111 E. Main Street Harlem Boulevard & Guard Street RUSHVILLE LZ Peace Memorial & McDonough County Honor Roll, Macomb Huey Helicopter Rushville Veterans Midway Village Museum Memorial SAN JOSE SENECA 6799 Guilford Road Rushville City Cemetery S. Liberty Street Veterans Memorial American Legion Navy Anchor Memorial San Jose Memorial Park War Memorial S. Second & W. Race Streets Beattie Park, 401 N. Main Street Schuyler County N. Main & E. Scott Streets

Veterans Memorial SAVANNA Veterans Memorial Schuyler County Courthouse Illinois LST Memorial Hall & Civil War Soldier 102 S. Congress Street Savanna Community (Landing Ship Tank) Crotty Park, E. Shipyard Road Monument Veterans Memorial 211 N. Main Street Veterans Memorial Savanna Township Cemetery SHAWNEETOWN Public Square State Route 84 & Skaien Drive Victory Monument N. Congress Street Gallatin County Veterans N. Main & Mulberry Streets Savanna Community Memorial Plaque & RUTLAND World War II Honor Roll POW/MIA “You Are Not West Middle School American Legion Memorial Forgotten” Memorial Memorial Garden Post 1121 Rutland Illinois Savanna Public Library Shawneetown American Legion 1900 N. Rockton Avenue 326 3rd Street Veterans Memorial & Post 585 80 Lincoln Boulevard E. ROLLING MEADOWS Civil War Mortar Savanna Veterans E. Market & W. Front Streets Veteran’s Memorial Memorial SHELBYVILLE Kirchoff Road & Wellington Court SALEM U.S. Highway 52 Eternal Flame Memorial, (north side of street in park) Luther B. Easley (Main Street, at north end of city) Shelby County Soldiers ROMEOVILLE American Legion Post 128 SAVOY and Sailors Monument & Edward “Doc” McCartan Veterans Memorial Savoy Veterans Memorial Cannon Veterans Memorial Luther B. Easley American Legion U.S. Highway 45 Freedom Square Post 128 E. Main & S. Washington Streets Murphy Park 1001 E. Main Street SCHAUMBURG Independence Boulevard & Korean War Memorial Montrose Drive Veterans Memorial Veterans Gateway Park Forest Park, E. North 9th Street Schaumburg & Roselle Roads (at entrance) ROODHOUSE For All Wars East Lawn Cemetery SEATONVILLE Roodhouse Remembers E. Main Street & N. Shelby Avenue Vietnam War Memorial 1812-2001 Memorial (at Main Street entrance) Boys from Seatonville Forest Park, E. North 9th Street W. Clay & Morse Streets War Memorial Plaque (at entrance) Princeton & East Streets * Rock Island Arsenal is an active military installation and requires visitors to access via the Moline Gate and obtain a visitor pass. Visit arsenalhistoricalsociety.org for details. enjoyillinois.com 31 Sangamon County Revolutionary War Memorial Plaque E. Adams Street (between 5th & 6th Streets)

Sangamon County War of 1812 Memorial Plaque E. Adams Street (between 5th & 6th Streets)

Sangamon Electric Co. World War I and II Memorial Oak Ridge Cemetery 1441 Monument Avenue Gate Hours: April 1st - August 31st: 7am-8pm

Chicago Southland CVB September 1st - March 31st: 7am-5:30pm Lansing Veterans Memorial Spanish-American SIDELL Civil War General Illinois Purple War Memorial Veterans War Memorial John M. Palmer Heart Memorial E. Monroe Street (between S. 1st & S. 2nd Streets) N. Gray & E. Market Streets Monument Oak Ridge Cemetery 1441 Monument Avenue SILVIS Illinois State Capitol World War I Illinois Second Street (near entrance off Hero Street USA, J. David Jones Parkway) Veterans Memorial Hero Street USA Confederate Soldiers Gate Hours: (with Sangamon County Honor Roll) Monument & Hero Monument April 1st - August 31st: 7am-8pm Camp Butler National Cemetery September 1st - March 31st: Oak Ridge Cemetery Street Memorial Park 5063 Camp Butler Road 7am-5:30pm 1441 Monument Avenue 232 1st Avenue (Confederate section) (near entrance off Illinois Vietnam J. David Jones Parkway) SKOKIE Honor Guard Gardens Veterans Memorial Gate Hours: Veterans Memorial & Southwind Park Oak Ridge Cemetery April 1st - August 31st: 7am-8pm Sergeant Kraig D. 4965 S. 2nd Street 1441 Monument Avenue September 1st - March 31st: 7am-5:30pm Foyteck Memorial (near entrance off Illinois Air National J. David Jones Parkway) Veterans Park World War II Illinois 8148 Lincoln Avenue Guard – 183d Wing Gate Hours: Memorial: April 1st - August 31st: 7am-8pm Veterans Memorial Vietnam War Memorial McDonnell Douglas F-4D-29-MC September 1st - March 31st: Oak Ridge Cemetery Oakton Park, 4701 Oakton Street 7am-5:30pm 1441 Monument Avenue “Phantom II,” Republic F-84F- 30-RE “Thunderstreak,” North (near entrance off SMITHTON American F-86E-6-CAN “Sabre,” Korean War J. David Jones Parkway) Smithton World War I F-16 “Fighting Falcon” & Veterans Memorial Gate Hours: Memorial Lockheed T-33 “T-Bird” Camp Butler National Cemetery April 1st - August 31st: 7am-8pm 5063 Camp Butler Road September 1st - March 31st: Melinda & S. Julia Streets Heritage Park 1079 Capital Airport Drive 7am-5:30pm SOUTH BELOIT Lincoln Tomb ST. ANNE American Legion Illinois Korean State Historic Site War Memorial Oak Ridge Cemetery Veterans Memorial & Veterans Memorial Oak Ridge Cemetery 1500 Monument Avenue South Beloit City Park 105mm Howitzer 1441 Monument Avenue Viewing Hours: 2nd Avenue & W. Grant Street 400 Winnebago Avenue (near entrance off Daily 9am-5pm ST. ELMO SOUTH HOLLAND J. David Jones Parkway) Gate Hours: Gate Hours: April 1st - August 31st: 7am-8pm St. Elmo Area South Holland Veterans April 1st - August 31st: 7am-8pm September 1st - March 31st: 7am-5:30pm Veterans Memorial Memorial & Tank September 1st - March 31st: E. Cumberland Road South Holland Veterans 7am-5:30pm (between S. Olive & Walnut Streets) Memorial Park Operation Enduring South Park Avenue & Illinois LST Sailors Freedom and Operation ST. JOSEPH Veterans Park Drive Monument Iraqi Freedom Memorial St. Joseph Honor Roll Camp Butler National Cemetery N. MacArthur Boulevard & SPRINGFIELD N. Main Street & U.S. Highway 150 5063 Camp Butler Road W. Oak Ridge Street AMVETS Camp Butler National Cemetery 5063 Camp Butler Road

32 ST. LIBORY STREAMWOOD Summit Middle Eastern TEUTOPOLIS American Legion Veteran’s Memorial Conflicts Memorial Teutopolis Veterans Veterans Memorial 301 E. Irving Park Road Summit Park Memorial 7236 State Route 15 Ronald J. Bragassi Memorial Road & Teutopolis American Legion STREATOR 57th Street Post 924 STEELEVILLE Grand Army of the W. Main & N. Plum Streets Veterans Memorial Republic Veterans’ Veterans Memorial & TILTON Steeleville City Park Monument M5 3-inch Anti-Tank 107 W. Broadway Riverview Cemetery Gun Display Servicemen from Tilton 1102 W. Main Street Legion Park STERLING Honor Roll W. 61st Street & 73rd Avenue Thomas Park Veteran’s Corner Soldiers’ Monument SWANSEA W. 5th & N. H Streets Central Memorial Park Streator City Park Brinks Circle 200 Block of N. Park Street Korean War Memorial TINLEY PARK Melvin Price Memorial Park Bremen Veterans of STICKNEY SUGAR GROVE 1500 Caseyville Avenue Foreign Wars Post 2791 American Legion Post 422 Sugar Grove Veterans from Memorial Veterans Memorial & Veterans Park Bremen Veterans of Foreign Wars 237 Main Street Swansea Memorial Artillery Pieces Melvin Price Memorial Park Post 2791 Mt. Auburn Cemetery SULLIVAN 1500 Caseyville Avenue 17147 S. Oak Park Avenue 4101 S. Oak Park Avenue Sullivan American SYCAMORE General Patrick E. Rea Village of Stickney Legion Post 68 Avenue of Flags Veterans Plaza Veterans Memorial Walk of Honor 18001 S. 80th Avenue Ridgeland Avenue & 8 E. Strain Street Monument Elmwood Cemetery Staff Sergeant STILLMAN VALLEY Veterans Memorial 901 S. Cross Street Michael J. Sutter (center of cemetery) Stillman’s Run Statue Memorial Battle Site Memorial Greenhill Cemetery DeKalb County Civil War Michael J. Sutter Playground State Route 72 & Street 209 E. Water Street Veterans Memorial 8125 W. 171st Street (next to tennis courts) STOCKTON SUMMER HILL DeKalb County Courthouse 133 W. State Street Stockton Veterans Civil War Monument Tinley Park Memorial U.S. Highway 54 & Esther Mae Nesbitt Veterans Memorial U.S. Highway 20 & Jim Town Hollow Road Memorial Tinley Park Village Hall 16250 S. Oak Park Avenue N. Hudson Street SUMMIT Elmwood Cemetery 901 S. Cross Street STONINGTON Argo Community Tinley Park Stonington World War II High School Veterans Sycamore Veterans Veterans Memorial Memorial Veterans Park Memorial Memorial 16001 S. Ozark Avenue American Legion Post 257 Argo Community High School Elmwood Cemetery 7329 W. 63rd Street 1020 S. Cross Street 401 W. North Street Tinley Park World War I STRASBURG Argo-Summit American World War I Memorial & Artillery Piece Memorial Park (near Patriot Field) Legion Post 735 Veterans Memorial Strasburg Veterans Sycamore Veterans Memorial 6641 W. 171st Street Memorial Memorial 6050 S. Home (Sycamore Vets Club) Veterans Memorial Locust & Commercial Streets 121 S. California Street Charles B. Powers TABLE GROVE Public Works Facility 7980 W. 183rd Street Veterans Memorial Village Square & W. Main Street TOWER HILL TAMPICO Freedom Monument Veterans Memorial Civil War Monument City Hall, 102 Freemont Street Park S. Main & W. Glassburn Streets TREMONT PARK TAYLOR SPRINGS Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial & Tremont Park, State Route 9 Artillery Piece TROY GROVE 8354 State Route 127 James Butler “Wild Bill” TAYLORVILLE Hickok Memorial Main & Ottawa Streets Veterans Memorial Park Southernmost Illinois W. Park & N. Washington Streets Veterans and Fallen Comrades Memorial, Anna enjoyillinois.com 33 Troy Grove Township VERMONT VIRDEN Revolutionary Patriots of Veterans Memorial Vermont Veterans World War I Soldiers Monroe County Plaque G.A.R. Memorial Park Memorial and Sailors Monument Monroe County Courthouse N. Main & High Streets S. Main & 4th Streets Town Square 3rd & S. Main Streets N. Dye & Jackson Streets (main entrance) TUSCOLA VERNON HILLS WATERMAN Douglas County Vernon Hills Memorial World War II Monument Veterans Memorial Town Square American Legion Post 654 Arbortheater N. Dye & Jackson Streets Douglas County Courthouse Castle Park, 50 Memorial Drive Veterans Memorial &

401 S. Center Street VIRGINIA Artillery Piece Veterans Memorial Lions Park UNION Willow Lawn Memorial Park Cass County S. Street & Lions Park Trail Illinois Central 24090 N. U.S. Highway 45 Veterans Memorial Cass County Courthouse WATSON War Memorial VIENNA Illinois Railway Museum S. Main & E. Springfield Streets Veterans Memorial American Revolution 7000 Olson Road WAPELLA Harry B. Clear Drive Memorial URBANA 400 Court Street Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial

Champaign County Wapella Park Jackson Street Johnson County N. Popular & Main Streets Memorial WAUCONDA Champaign County Courthouse Honor Roll WARRENSBURG 101 E. Main Street Vienna Public Library Wauconda World War I 401 Poplar Street Illini Township and II Memorial Veterans Memorial Memorial Park Veterans of Foreign VILLA GROVE Wars Post 630 Memorial S. Main & E. Main Streets State Route 176 & Main Street 1303 E. Main Street Lockheed T-33A “Shooting Star” & WARSAW WAUKEGAN VANDALIA Military Equipment Veterans Memorial Lake County Soldiers Fayette County -Wisch Park and Sailors Monument Display Main & 5th Streets Revolutionary War City Park Lake County Courthouse N. Main & W. Harrison Streets 18 N. County Street Memorial WASHBURN Fayette County Courthouse Lake County Veterans 221 S. 7th Street Veterans Memorial Bell UH-1D-BF City Park “Iroquois (Huey)” Memorial Plaza & Fayette County N. Main & W. Harrison Streets American Legion Post 661 General Dynamics F-111 104 E. Parkside Drive Veterans Memorial Wall & VILLA PARK “Aardvark” 75mm Pack Howitzer Waukegan National Airport Villa Park Veterans Memorial N. McAree Road & American Legion Post 95 Grant Ireland Memorial Park W. Plane Rest Drive 321 S. 7th Street Veterans Memorial W. Parkside Drive Cortesi Veterans Memorial Park Veterans Memorial 320 E. Kenilworth Avenue WASHINGTON Navy Park: A Monument Old State Cemetery to Freedom S. 2nd & W. Edwards Streets VIOLA Civil War Memorial & Glen Town Center (formerly Hangar Viola Veterans and Cannonball Display One of Naval Air Station Glenview) World War I Soldiers Washington Square, N. Main Street Volunteers Memorial 2023 Tower Drive and Sailors Monument Pride Park Washington Veteran’s Town Square U.S. Highway 67 & 16th Avenue Waukegan Veterans Memorial & Memorial Plaza: AH-1S “Huey Cobra” Waukegan Veterans Memorial, Attack Helicopter Bronze Flag Memorial, World War I Washington Park, Lincoln Street Doughboy Memorial Statue, U.S.S. Maine Memorial, WATERLOO The Patriot’s Wall and Fountain, Monroe County Orion Perseus Howe Statue, Corporal Richard E. Bush Medal of Veterans Memorial & Honor Memorial & Memorial Pavers Veterans Paver Project Washington Park Lakeview Park Washington & S. West Streets Lakeview Drive & S. Library Street WAVERLY Monroe County Waverly Veterans World War I Memorial Memorial Plaque Public Square, E. State Street Monroe County Courthouse 100 S. Main Street City of O’Fallon O’Fallon Veterans’ Monument, O’Fallon

34 WAYNE CITY Westville War Memorial WILLOW SPRINGS WOODSTOCK Wayne City (Korean & Vietnam Wars) Brigadier General McHenry County Veterans Memorial Westville Depot & Historical Museum Count Casimir Pulaski Civil War Memorial Thomason Cemetery 211 S. State Street S. Benton & E. Jackson Streets Memorial State Route 15 Westville War Memorial Pulaski Woods Parking area south of Wolf Road Vietnam War Memorial WENONA (World War II) (between 107th & 95th Streets) McHenry County Administration Westville Depot & Historical Museum Building, 667 Ware Road General Motors 211 S. State Street (Republic) F-84F-30-GK Veterans Memorial WORTH WHEATON Fairmount-Willow Hills “Thunderstreak” Memorial Park Veterans Memorial 4 Calvary Drive DuPage County Archer Avenue & Cemetery Road Park & Eternal Flame Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial 115 County Farm Road Willow Springs Honor Monument S. Chestnut Street (between S. Harlem Avenue & W. 111th Street W. 1st N. & W. 1st S. Streets) Roll & Artillery Piece Korean War Memorial State Route 171 (Archer Avenue) & WYANET Memorial Park WEST CHICAGO Willow Springs Road 208 W. Union Avenue Wyanet World War II

Oakwood Cemetery WILMETTE Memorial “Over the Top to Victory” Veterans Memorial Gilson Park 100 E. Main Street Oakwood Cemetery World War I N. Oakwood & E. York Avenues Doughboy Memorial World War I Memorial YATES CITY Memorial Park Grove & Plaque Veterans Memorial WEST FRANKFORT 208 W. Union Avenue Gilson Park E. Main Street Sheridan Road & Harbor Drive Veterans Memorial & (between N. Union & Doughboy Memorial Vietnam War N. Burson Streets) Memorial Stone Wilmette War Memorial Veterans Military Museum Wilmette Village Hall Memorial Park YORKVILLE 100 W. Main Street 1200 Wilmette Avenue 208 W. Union Avenue American Legion WEST UNION World War I Obelisk WINCHESTER Perpetual Flame Town Square Park Veterans Memorial & Northside Park Scott County 301 N. Bridge Street U.S. Army MGM-5 1300 N. West Street Veterans Memorial “Corporal” Missile (center of roundabout) Monument Park ZION West N. Main & E. Park Streets Walnut & Hull Streets WHEELING Zion and Benton WINFIELD Townships Veterans WESTERN SPRINGS AMVETS Post 66 Wheeling Veterans General Memorial Henry G. Maxted Memorial & Tank Memorial Veterans Memorial Park Sheridan Road & Shiloh Boulevard World War I AMVETS Post 66 Winfield Scott Park Memorial Marker 700 McHenry Road 0N600 Winfield Road Western Springs Water Tower 914 Hillgrove Avenue WHITE HALL WINNETKA (left of the entrance sidewalk) Civil War Memorial Spanish-American War White Hall Township Public Library WESTFIELD Cannon 119 E. Sherman Street Village Green Park Clark County 501 Maple Street Veterans Memorial Edward L. Hager Westfield Village Park “Drummer Boy of Winnetka Village S. Washington Street Shiloh” Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Village Green Park Westfield World War I Memorial Cemetery 501 Maple Street Memorial W. Carlinville Street Westfield Village Park WOOD DALE S. Washington Street WILLIAMSVILLE City of Wood Dale WESTMONT Williamsville Roll Veterans Memorial of Honor, Veterans W. Irving Park Road & Veterans Memorial Park Memorial Arch & Harvey Avenue 55 E. Richmond Street Vietnam Era 155mm WOOD RIVER WESTVILLE Howitzer Wood River Veterans City Park, Main & Pine Streets Westville Veterans War Memorial Memorial & Central Park Wood River & Eaton Avenues Artillery Pieces War Memorial, Zamberletti Park Industry N. State Street & E. Moses Avenue

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Military Memorabilia at the Effingham County Museum |Effingham County Museum

Alton Museum of History and Art inside the museum include various model U.S. Custom House Museum Loomis Hall, 2809 College Avenue  Alton aircraft, a restored 1941 Link Trainer, and two 1400 Washington Avenue  Cairo 618-462-2763  altonmuseum.com flight simulators. Outside exhibits include a Bell 618-734-9632 Sea Cobra, Huey Helicopter, F-14 Tomcat, and an Cairo Custom House Museum The museum is located in historic Loomis A-4 Skyhawk. Hall, across from the Wadlow statue. One of Completed in 1872, the U.S. Custom House the most popular rooms, the Wadlow Room, originally served as a tariff and duty collection pays tribute to Alton’s “Gentle Giant” and Illinois Aviation Museum center for international imports moving along the World’s Tallest Man, Robert Wadlow. The 130 S. Clow International Parkway  Bolingbrook the Mississippi River. Today it is one of the Pioneer Room explores the history of Alton 630-771-1937  illinoisaviationmuseum.org few customs house buildings that remain. The from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the The Illinois Aviation Museum was established historic structure houses unique items and Civil War with exhibits on Elijah Lovejoy, the in 2004 and is currently housed in Hangar One interesting displays. See Civil War memorabilia, Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the “Alton Route” at Bolingbrook’s Clow International Airport. It including a desk used by Ulysses S. Grant while in on the Underground Railroad. features a unique collection of war vehicles, Cairo and a replica of the U.S.S. Cairo gunboat. helicopters, and planes, each one having a Grand Army of the Republic compelling story and legacy. Guided tours Kibbe Hancock Heritage Museum Memorial Hall Museum are available. 306 Walnut Street  Carthage 23 E. Downer Place  Aurora 217-357-9552  kibbe.wordpress.com 630-256-3400  630-256-4636 Greater St. Louis Air and The museum features an Abraham Lincoln aurora-il.org/372/Grand-Army-of-the-Republic Space Museum exhibit containing Civil War artifacts. Historical Named the 2017 Small Institution of the Year by 2300 Vector Drive  Cahokia displays of life in Hancock County, including the Illinois Association of Museums, the GAR 618-332-3664  airandspacemuseum.org Native Americans, pioneers, agriculture, and Hall also was granted an award by Landmarks The museum is located at St. Louis Downtown exhibits on domestic life, are available to view. Illinois for its renovation in 2016. The building Airport in an original Curtiss-Wright Hangar Natural history dioramas, fossils, minerals, and is a Registered Historic Place in the State of built in 1929-30. The structure is one of the geodes round out the collection. Illinois. The museum features several exhibits last hangars still in use from the first coast documenting the unique contributions of to coast airport system. The museum’s focus Champaign County Illinoisans to Union efforts in the Civil War, as is on St. Louis area aerospace history with History Museum well as a collection of historical artifacts. artifacts covering early ballooning in St. Louis, 102 E. University Avenue  Champaign early history of Lambert Field, and the aircraft/ 217-356-1010  champaigncountyhistory.org aerospace manufacturers that have called Prairie Aviation Museum The recently renovated museum features 2929 E. Empire Street  Bloomington Lambert Field home. The early days of the 20,000 objects and all-new exhibits: When 309-663-7632  prairieaviationmuseum.org space race are represented by astronaut suits and other artifacts on display from McDonnell We Went to War, Champaign County History -friendly environment allows visitors Aircraft’s Mercury and Gemini programs. Uncrated, A Second Home: 150 Years of to interact with the displays and aircraft as they Student Living at the University of Illinois, and learn about the contributions aviation has made The Art of Louise Woodroofe. The museum to the local community and nation. Displays is located in the historic Cattle Bank building,

36 which is listed on the National Register of Rosehill Cemetery and Chillicothe Area History Museum Historic Places and is the oldest commercial Civil War Museum & Rock Island Depot Museum building in Champaign County. A museum gift 5800 N. Ravenswood Avenue  Chicago Main Museum: 723 N. 4th Street shop is also available. 773-561-5940  choosechicago.com Rock Island Depot Museum: 3rd & Cedar Streets Chillicothe  309-274-9076 Rosehill Cemetery contains the graves of 14 chillicothehistorical.org Memorial – Union generals, 6 drummer boys, and hundreds Dauntless Exhibit of Civil War soldiers. Illinois’ Eighth Cavalry, the Housed in a historic home, the museum Midway International Airport unit that fired the first shots at Gettysburg, has contains a vintage kitchen, schoolroom, military 5700 S. Cicero Avenue members buried here. The Civil War Museum, items, local fire and rescue artifacts, and much (near Concourse A entrance)  Chicago housed in the administration building, features more. Family histories and genealogy research chicagomarineheritage.org/midway.html exhibits on the war and the City of Chicago’s materials are available. The restored 1889 Rock The exhibit features an SBD Dauntless aircraft, role in the war. Explore the cemetery on your Island depot is full of railroad memorabilia and photographs, narratives, and interactive video own or schedule a narrated walking tour. an operational model railroad. kiosks. The plane was recovered from in 1991, 47 years after it crashed Vermilion County War Museum during training exercises. 307 N. Vermilion Street  Danville The aircraft and exhibits 217-431-0034  vcwm.org provide an educational experience, highlighting Located in the historic Carnegie Library building, the contributions of pilots, the museum collection occupies almost 14,000 engineers, and the City of square feet. Displays include memorabilia and Chicago during World War II. artifacts from the Revolutionary War to Operation Iraqi Freedom. The museum is part of the Blue Museum of Science Star Museums program. and Industry 5700 S. Lake Shore Drive Chicago  773-684-1414 Wheels O’Time Museum 1710 W. Woodside Drive  Dunlap msichicago.org 309-243-9020  wheelsotime.org Guests of all ages visit each The campus’ 30,000 square feet year to experience the largest of exhibits include a fully restored and most interactive science Western Illinois Museum Western Le Tourneau steel house museum in the Western from 1938, airplanes, clocks, Hemisphere! The museum’s vintage clothes, musical dramatic U-505 Submarine displays, military uniforms exhibit includes the only German and artifacts, a World War I sub in the U.S. Reaching the encampment diorama, and so length of a city block, the towering much more. Step aboard the World War II submarine’s presence Rock Island steam locomotive captivates visitors. The exhibit and sound the whistle. From the contains interactive displays and Duryea to hot rods, more than nearly 200 artifacts. Visitors can 40 historic vehicles are on take a highly immersive onboard tour display. Every building is full of complete with dramatic lighting and surprises. Push the button, wind sound effects. the crank, or pull the cord, the interactive displays are fun for National Veterans Art Museum all ages! 4041 N. Milwaukee Avenue  Chicago 312-326-0270  nvam.org East Alton History Museum The National Veterans Art Museum inspires The Polish Museum of America 119 N. Main Street, 3rd floor East Alton greater understanding of the real impact of war. 984 N. Milwaukee Avenue  Chicago 618-216-2781  riversandroutes.com It is dedicated to collecting, preserving and 773-384-3352  polishmuseumofamerica.org The museum features photographs and objects exhibiting art inspired by combat and created documenting the history of East Alton since its by veterans. View the rotating exhibitions or Located within the first Polish community in incorporation in 1893. browse the permanent collection, totaling more Chicago, the museum is one of the largest than 2,500 pieces. and oldest cultural heritage museums in the U.S. Founded in 1935, the facility is made up Effingham County Museum of three parts – the library, the archives and 110 E. Jefferson Avenue Effingham Pritzker Military Museum & Library the museum itself. According to museum 217-240-2471  effinghamcountymuseum.org 104 S. Michigan Avenue, 2nd Floor  Chicago visitor logs, during World War II 20 U.S. Naval  Military displays fill several rooms of the 312-374-9333 pritzkermilitary.org Intelligence staff visited the archives to view the former courthouse. Uniforms, swords, firearms, The museum and library houses more than only maps of Eastern Europe available outside pictures, and documents tell of local military 35,000 pieces of military history ranging from of German occupied Europe. Today, a large service and sacrifice. maps and books to medals and swords. Exhibits part of the exhibits focus on the history of the reveal the story of America’s military through Poles in America, including an extensive military the eyes of its citizen soldiers. Take a docent- collection that spans the 19th and 20th centuries. guided tour or explore on your own.

enjoyillinois.com 37 Galena & U.S. Grant Museum National Museum of the Simpkins Military History Museum 211 South Bench Street  Galena American Sailor 605 E. Cole Street  Heyworth 815-777-9131  galenahistory.org 2531 Sheridan Road (Building 42, next to Gate 1 – 309-473-3989  simpkinsmuseum.com Galena’s history is displayed throughout an park in Visitor’s Parking lot)  Great Lakes Vietnam War veteran Gary Simpkins began 1858 Italianate mansion, where guests are 847-688-3154  history.navy.mil collecting when he was 12. In 1989 he opened welcomed by the spirits of Ulysses and One of ten museums administered by the Naval a museum to share his collection. Helmets, portrayed in a hologram. Exhibits History and Heritage Command, the National patches, and uniforms, including women’s cover a range of local and national history, Museum of the American Sailor is situated on uniforms from World War II, are on display. including World War I, lead mining, historical the grounds of the Navy’s only boot camp, Naval The museum is full of historical items, maps, Galena’s nine Civil War generals, and Station Great Lakes. The museum is currently including a 34-star flag that flew during the steamboating. True national treasures, such as housed in the only remaining World War II era Civil War, World War II German straw boots, a the “Peace in Union” painting, “ structure drafted by architect Gordon Bunshaft. conquistador’s stirrup, and displays covering on the Battlefield” painting, and the flag from the Known as the Hostess House, it was built in 1942 numerous wars and conflicts. Vicksburg siege, are also on display. Discover as the location for sailors to greet family during souvenirs, gifts, and books of a historical nature arrival and departure from the base. Temporary Easley Pioneer Museum in the museum gift and bookshop. exhibits and permanent displays honor those U.S. 210 West Broadway  Ipava Navy men and women who live by the credo of 309-254-3207  EasleyPioneerMuseum Honor, Courage, and Commitment. Illinois Citizen Soldier Museum Explore local military history through informative Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2257 displays, including the Camp Ellis exhibit. James Stockdale Center Constructed during World War II, Camp Ellis was 1001 Michigan Avenue  Galesburg used as an Army training center and a German 309-342-1181 prisoner of war camp. After visiting the museum, Outside, view the tank and artillery piece. Inside, take a short drive to see the existing remains of view military objects from Illinois service men the camp. and women spanning the War of 1812 to Desert Storm. This museum also displays memorabilia and artifacts from Medal of Honor recipient Fulkerson Mansion – Historical Admiral James Stockdale, one of the most highly Steam and Living History, Inc. decorated officers in the history of the Navy. 25007 U.S. Highway 67  Jerseyville Stockdale was the highest ranking Navy officer 618-498-5590  riversandroutes.com held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, having Open by appointment only for group tours & spent seven and a half years at Hỏa Lò Prison in during Jersey County Victorian Festival North Vietnam before his release. The Colonel William H. Fulkerson farm contains many rare agricultural items. Listed on the Glen Carbon Heritage Museum National Register of Historic Places, the family’s 124 School Street  Glen Carbon mansion is furnished with antiques. Also on 618-288-7271  glen-carbon.il.us display are the Colonel’s personal Civil War items from his time as the commander of the The Glen Carbon Heritage Museum offers a Confederacy’s 63rd Regiment. large array of items that reflect the humble Lafayette Baker’s Civil War artifacts and beginnings of the community. The building the Thomas Lincoln anvil are also available itself has a long history, including being for viewing. used as a school, World War II scrap metal Cumberland County collection center, and a library. Along with Military Museum war memorabilia, view the Doughboy statue 213 W. Cumberland Street  Greenup Kankakee County Museum honoring two local young men killed in 217-923-9306  cumberlandcountyhistory.org 801 S. 8th Avenue  Kankakee 815-932-5279  kankakeecountymuseum.com during World Word I. The nearby 1853 Yanda The museum was established to honor veterans Log Cabin is a satellite museum location. from Cumberland County who served in battles The museum is full of local history exhibits, from the Mexican War through present conflicts. including The Civil War: Soldier’s Stories and Naval Air Station The on-site recording studio allows for the the War Exhibition, covering major conflicts safeguarding of local oral history, including since World War I. On the grounds, view a World Glenview Museum War II 75mm Pack Howitzer and the Veterans 2040 Lehigh Avenue  Glenview military service and other historical accounts. Memorial wall display containing the names of 847-657-0000  thehangarone.org Displays include military photos, clothing, documents, posters, and other artifacts. more than 7,000 Fayette County veterans. Located at the eastern perimeter of what was once Naval Air Station Glenview, the museum conveys the history of the world’s only location Herscher Area Historical Society Keithsburg Museum 304 S. 14th Street  Keithsburg for freshwater aircraft carrier operations. The 190 S. Main Street  Herscher 309-374-2311  keithsburg.com/museum base was established in 1923 and trained more 815-426-2627  herscher.net than 24,000 pilots, including George H. W. The Herscher Area Historical Society’s collection Housed in the City Hall building, the museum Bush, Neil Armstrong, and Robert Taylor. The contains photographs, documents, and artifacts contains five rooms packed full of interesting base was decommissioned in 1995, leaving which depict the history of Herscher and many historical objects from the area, including items the former control tower and Hangar I to be local communities. A display of uniforms and of local military history. repurposed by the community. A short distance other memorabilia from World War I to present from these remodeled structures, the museum are also on display. preserves the history of Naval Air Station Glenview and those who served there.

38 Heritage in Flight Museum Logan County Airport  1351 Airport Road Lincoln  217-732-3333 heritage-in-flight.org Open by appointment The museum building was originally an Army barracks at Camp Ellis. After World War II it was dismantled and moved to Lincoln. The structure is filled with aviation and military memorabilia from conflicts dating back to World War I. Outside, view the collection of military aircraft and vehicles.

Litchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center 334 Historic Old Route 66 North  Litchfield 217-324-3510  litchfieldmuseum.org The Litchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center is located where the Vic Suhling gas station once stood. The retro design of the building, with exterior neon trim and restored neon Suhling sign, welcomes visitors. View historical artifacts of Litchfield, a comprehensive section on area veterans, and explore Litchfield’s relationship with Route 66. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC Manteno American Legion Post 755 Museum In April 1866, in Decatur, Illinois, Benjamin Franklin Stephenson founded the first 117 N. Walnut Street, 2nd floor Manteno post of what would become the preeminent organization for veterans of the Civil 815-468-8324 War, the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). Open to honorably discharged Union Located within the American Legion in veterans, the organization promoted fraternity, charity, and loyalty, and afforded Manteno, items on display have been soldiers the opportunity to reconnect and remember the fallen. donated or are on loan from local veterans. From a World War I uniform to photographs The GAR would go on to participate in national politics and and memorabilia, this museum covers World War I through Afghanistan. influence the creation of veterans’ homes, support legislation providing pensions for wounded veterans, and start a fund Williamson County Historical for disadvantaged veterans, widows and orphans. In 1866, Society Museum & Library GAR member and Union General John A. Logan held one 105 S. Van Buren Street  Marion of the first memorial services in the nation for Union Civil 618-997-5863  wcihs.org War soldiers. The ceremony took place in the historic This historic 1913 jailhouse contains 17 rooms Woodlawn Cemetery in Carbondale, Illinois. By 1868, full of interesting objects and antiques. Explore Logan had become Commander-in- of the GAR and restored jail cells and reproductions of a one requested that May 30 be set aside for all members to room schoolhouse, doctor’s office, and a general decorate the graves of Civil War soldiers. This annual store. The military room contains items from the Civil War onward, including an 1870s Illinois observance expanded to include fallen soldiers of all Militia uniform and an 1898 uniform from the wars and eventually became known as Memorial Day. Spanish-American War. During its height, the GAR had over 400,000 members, Seattle Sutton including Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, Marseilles Museum and McKinley. In 1956, the organization was formally 151 Washington Street  Marseilles dissolved with the death of its last member, Albert 815-795-6135  815-795-7976  ssmmi.org Woolson, at the age of 109. Although the group no The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad longer exists, the historic GAR Halls in Aurora, depot has been transformed into the Seattle Springfield and Peoria, where so many Civil War Sutton Marseilles Museum. Exhibits include local historical artifacts and military history. veterans gathered, can still be visited today. This museum is a part of the Blue Star Museums program. Images: Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall Museum, Aurora (Aurora Area CVB, James Cardis); C.V. Chandler GAR Medal (Western Illinois Museum)

enjoyillinois.com 39 Hall of Honor and Colonel missions, and the C-141 Starlifter and KC-135 to 1853. Exhibits cover county military history, R. D. White Veterans Museum Stratotanker, the workhorses of the Air including veterans displays and a dedicated Mobility Command. room highlighting Lincoln and the Civil War. Other 100 Aviation Drive  Mt. Vernon objects include Native American artifacts, home 618-242-7016  enjoymtvernon.com furnishings, historical images, and more. The museum contains hundreds of pieces Greenhut Memorial Grand Army of military memorabilia collected during of the Republic Hall major conflicts from the Civil War to present 416 Hamilton Boulevard  Peoria All Wars Museum Illinois Veterans’ Home day. Vintage uniforms, weapons, munitions, 309-857-6844 1707 N. 12th Street  Quincy and K-rations are on display. Newspapers, Peoria’s GAR Hall – The Greenhut Memorial 217-222-8641  quincyivh.org/museum.html magazines, and letters to soldiers are also Call to schedule tour available to view. The hall was completed in 1909 and serves Located on the grounds of the Illinois Veterans’ as a memorial to Civil War soldiers from the Home, more than 5,000 artifacts are in the General John A. Logan Museum Peoria area. Step back in time as you view the museum’s collection. Exhibits span the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism with 1613 Edith Street  Murphysboro neoclassical architecture and stunning stained memorabilia, uniforms, flags, photographs, 618-684-3455  loganmuseum.org glass . The building was funded by Civil War Captain Joseph Greenhut, who and military equipment on display. Follow General John A. Logan’s journey from his established Peoria as the “Whiskey Capital boyhood in Murphysboro, to commanding the of the World” in the late 1800s. Army of the Tennessee during the Civil War, World Aerospace Museum Inc. Quincy Regional Airport  Baldwin Field and later, to his time as a United States 1645 State Route 104  Quincy Congressman. In 1868, while Commander-in- Pike County All Wars Museum 217-885-3143  jet-warbirds.com Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, Logan 320 N. Illinois Street  Pittsfield By appointment only issued General Order No. 11. This designated 217-242-4253  allwars.org May 30 as Decoration Day, which later became Browse through the growing collection of This working museum locates aircraft from the U.S. holiday known as Memorial Day. The artifacts from the Civil War to conflicts in the former Soviet bloc countries and brings them museum conveys Logan’s story through family Middle East. All objects are donated or on loan to the U.S. The old warbirds are carefully memorabilia, photos, and items from the Civil War. from veterans or the families of veterans. rebuilt and refurbished on location. Some of the rescued planes currently in the collection include a MiG-29 fighter and a MiG-21 UM. Scott Field Heritage Air Park Livingston County War Museum & 763 Seibert Road  O’Fallon Dal Estes Education Center 321 N. Main Street, 3rd Floor  Pontiac Crawford Veterans of Foreign 618-233-2015 815-842-0301  livingstoncountywarmuseum.com Wars Post 4549 Military Museum www.scott.af.mil/about-us/airpark 712 E. Main Street  Robinson  618-546-5140 Started by two veterans, the museum has grown Discover the history of Scott Air Force Base, over the years to include more than 200 military A remodeled ICCR railroad depot houses the one of the oldest, continuous-service Air Force uniforms, many of which are accompanied by Military Museum. Items on display include installations in the country. Numerous aircraft a profile of its original owner. The staggering military equipment, artifacts, and memorabilia. are on display including the C-9 Nightingale, an amount of artifacts and memorabilia in the Outside, view the granite memorial wall aircraft dedicated to Aeromedical Evacuation museum’s collection covers all branches of honoring local soldiers. service and includes photos, weapons, videos, model planes, flags, medals, munitions, meals, Roberts Armory and much more. 2090 Brushgrove Road  Rochelle 815-561-4445  robertsarmory.com Poplar Grove Vintage Wings & Open by appointment & during special events Wheels Museum Preserving the history of World War II and 5151 Orth Road, Suite A-1  Poplar Grove honoring those who served, the museum 815-547-3115  poplargrovewingsandwheels.com specializes in the acquisition and display of U.S. World War II armored vehicles, artillery, The museum displays pre-World War II and other artifacts. The museum participates in transportation history across 12 acres. View many reenactment events in which it typically early 20th century airplane hangars, and portrays the 70th Tank Battalion. Visit the walk through automotive garages saved from website for a full list of events. demolition and restored on-site. See a museum quality replica of a flying Curtiss JN-4D “Jenny,” built in the Restoration Hangar. Rock Island Arsenal Museum* Rock Island Arsenal, 1 Rock Island Arsenal Building 60 - 3500 North Avenue  Rock Island Bureau County Historical Society 309-782-5021  arsenalhistoricalsociety.org Museum and Library 109 Park Avenue W.  Princeton  815-875-2184 The Rock Island Arsenal Museum is the second bureaucountyhistoricalsociety.com oldest U.S. Army museum in the country. View exhibits that detail the history of the Rock Island The museum maintains two historic homes: the Arsenal. See a model of Fort Armstrong, the Clark-Norris Home, a handsome Prairie Square first fort built on the island. The museum also mansion built in 1900, and the Newell-Bryant VisitSI features a premiere collection of more than House, a stately Greek Revival home dating back Williamson County Historical Society 1,200 small arms. Museum & Library, Marion

* Rock Island Arsenal is an active military installation and requires visitors to access via the Moline Gate and obtain a visitor pass. Visit arsenalhistoricalsociety.org for details.

40 ILLINOISouth Tourism | Andy Waterman ILLINOISouth Tourism Cumberland County Military Museum, Greenup

Camp Grant Museum Albert D. J. Cashier Historic Home of and inspiring all ages to take a 1004 Samuelson Road  Rockford Corner of Center & Maple Streets  Saunemin stand against hatred, prejudice and indifference, 815-395-0679  campgrantmuseum.com saunemin.centralilattractions.com today and for generations to come. Travel through history as you explore life before, Discover memorabilia from Rockford’s Camp This is the postwar residence of Albert D. J. during, and after the Holocaust in the Karkomi Grant, a U.S. Army induction and training camp Cashier. Born Jennie Hodgers in 1843 in Holocaust Exhibit. Then visit the Take a Stand during World War I and II. The museum and Clogherhead, Ireland, she eventually emigrated Center, which offers a forward-looking emphasis Command Post Restaurant are housed in a to America. Disguised as a man, she joined on multiple areas of social justice and the building that served as a fire station and later the 95th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War holographic Survivor Stories Experience. the Induction and Muster Out Center for Camp and enlisted under the name Albert D. J. Grant. Many postcards and pictures on display Cashier. She participated in more than forty depict life at Camp Grant. battles, including the siege at Vicksburg, as Abraham Lincoln part of General Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Presidential Library and Museum Veterans Memorial Hall and Tennessee. Albert’s grave is located in Sunny 112 N. 6th Street  Springfield Slope Cemetery on the west side of Saunemin. 217-558-8844  illinois.gov/alplm Museum 211 N. Main Street  Rockford This state-of-the-art facility was carefully 815-969-1999  veteransmemorialhall.com Trickster Art Gallery designed with exacting historical detail. 190 S. Roselle Road  Schaumburg Amazingly well-preserved artifacts tell the Memorial Hall was established by Winnebago 847-301-2090  trickstergallery.com entire life story of our nation’s 16th president. County residents who wished to honor the Dedicated to the life and legacy of Abraham Chicago is home to the third largest population memory of those who fought in defense of the Lincoln, the museum features high-tech of off-reservation people of Native descent. The U.S. The hall was dedicated in 1903, during a exhibits, interactive displays, and multimedia gallery’s 10,000 square feet of exhibition space ceremony attended by President Theodore programs, as well as a reproduction of the celebrates Native culture through artworks on Roosevelt. Today, the building is a living as it looked in 1861. memorial to those men and women who have display. Explore permanent and rotating exhibits served and those who continue to serve in our including the “Wall of Honor”: A Tribute to Native nation’s armed forces. Veterans; The Women’s Memorial Tribute, Air Combat Museum honoring women in the military from all cultures 835 S. Airport Drive  Springfield who have sacrificed their lives in service since 217-522-2181  aircombatmuseum.com Schuyler Jail Museum 9/11; and the Art from Native Veterans exhibit. 200 S. Congress Street  Rushville The Air Combat Museum showcases the role 217-322-6975  Schuyler Jail Museum of military aviation and features a collection Illinois Holocaust Museum & of historical aircraft and aviation memorabilia. Built in 1857, the building which now houses Aircraft include a Beechcraft AT-11, used to the museum served as the Schuyler County Jail Education Center 9603 Woods Drive  Skokie bombardiers in World War II; a P-51 Mustang; a until 1902. Items on display include local history 847-967-4800  ilholocaustmuseum.org Vought F4U-S Corsair; a 1930s Fleet Model 9 and military memorabilia. The Genealogical biplane, 1 of 25 that were built; and a Soko G-21 Center contains a library and family history Recognized as the third largest Holocaust Galeb, the first Yugoslavian jet. information for the surrounding area. museum in the world, this world-class museum is dedicated to conveying the universal lessons

enjoyillinois.com 41 various ages and interests. A collection of over 10,000 items of historical significance to Douglas County are on display. Visitors may also use the museum’s research library containing genealogical resources, obituaries, cemetery books, census records, atlases, plat books, and more.

Veterans Educational Museum Crawford Hale American Legion Post 95 321 S. 7th Street  Vandalia 618-283-0832  vandaliaillinois.com Fayette County veterans donated more than 800 military items to form the museum’s collection. Items are housed in the historic Fehern Mansion. Artifacts from wars and conflicts covering World War I through Desert Storm are on display.

Volo Auto Museum 27582 Volo Village Road  Volo 815-385-3644  volocars.com Covering 36 acres, the museum complex has more than 33 exhibits including the country’s largest display of television and movie cars; galleries dedicated to Disney and Warner Brothers; and the largest display of kiddie rides from the 1940s-1960s, most of which can be ridden. The Military Exhibit features life-like battle scenes, rare military vehicles, aircraft,

Illinois Office of Tourism Illinois Office of and thousands of uniforms, weapons, and Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield artifacts. After visiting the museum complex, stroll through seven miles of aisles at the antique malls. Daughters of Union Veterans Illinois State Military Museum of the Civil War National 1301 N. MacArthur Boulevard  Springfield Headquarters & Museum 217-761-3910  Illinois.State.Military.Museum 503 S. Walnut Street  Springfield Preserving the heritage of the Illinois National 217-544-0616  duvcw.org/headquarters.html Guard, the museum is committed to collecting, The war that helped shape a nation is interpreting, and exhibiting military artifacts remembered here. The museum contains associated with the citizen soldier of Illinois. medals, photos, battle swords, currency, Items on exhibit include rare artifacts such drums and other musical instruments, books, as the artificial leg of Mexican General Santa documents, a Union soldier’s uniform, and Anna, a target board shot at by President dresses from the Civil War era. Located next Lincoln, as well as vehicles, weapons, uniforms, door, the Dr. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson equipment, and photographs. Library and Research Center has materials available for viewing, including a complete set Air Classics Museum of Aviation of War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 44W546 U.S. Highway 30  Sugar Grove 630-466-0888  airclassicsmuseum.org Grand Army of the Republic Run by veterans, the Air Classics Museum of Memorial Museum Aviation gives visitors a chance to experience 629 S. 7th Street  Springfield history through firsthand accounts. The museum 217-522-4373 houses working aircraft from the flying age G A R Memorial Museum in Springfield IL of combat, memorabilia, and military vehicles ranging from the 1930s onward. Climb into A drum that beat reveille at the Battle of history by sitting in the pilot’s seat of a UH-1 Appomattox Court House can be found among Huey helicopter! the many artifacts, photographs, and documents from the Civil War on display. In addition, visitors will discover memorabilia relating to the Grand Douglas County Museum Army of the Republic (GAR) and the Woman’s 700 S. Main Street  Tuscola Relief Corps (WRC). 217-253-2535  douglascountymuseum.org

The museum offers visitors year-round Quincy Area CVB exhibits, programs, events, and tours for All Wars Museum, Quincy

42 Warbird Heritage Foundation Waukegan National Airport 3000 Corporate Drive  Waukegan 847-244-8701  warbirdheritagefoundation.org Visitors must schedule appointment in advance The foundation was organized with a focus on preserving its aircraft in flying condition, demonstrating these aircraft at air shows and other special events, and promoting public interest in historic military aircraft. Numerous restored aircraft are on display in the hangar.

Veterans Military Museum 100 W. Main Street  West Frankfort 618-932-6159  westfrankfort-il.com Once the location where many young boys left the Rend Lake Area to head to war, the restored C&I railroad depot now houses a military museum with items ranging from the Civil War to Desert Storm. Items provided by the community include uniforms, a purple heart, a World War II communication system, and more.

First Division Museum & Tank Park Cantigny Park  1S151 Winfield Road Wheaton  630-260-8185  fdmuseum.org BLUE STAR MUSEUMS Located on the grounds of Cantigny Park, the museum’s Duty First indoor gallery The Blue Star Museums program is a collaboration among the National highlights missions performed by the Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and 1st Infantry Division as relayed by military veterans. The other major gallery, First in War, museums across America. Each summer since 2010, Blue Star Museums have provides immersive experiences such as offered free admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their walking through a World War I trench, onto families, including National Guard and Reserve. Omaha Beach, and through the jungles of Vietnam. Visitors can view, touch and climb on Seventy-two Illinois museums have participated in the program including a fleet of historical vehicles and tanks in the outdoor Tank Park. children’s museums, fine art museums, history and science museums, cultural museums, nature centers, and more. Institutions in this guide that take part in Wood River Museum & the Blue Star Museums program, which runs annually from Armed Forces Day Visitor Center through Labor Day, include: 40 W. Ferguson Avenue  Wood River 618-254-1993  woodriver.org Museum of Science and Industry  Chicago The museum houses exhibits on the Olde National Veterans Art Museum  Chicago Downtown, World War I, World War II, the Flood Vermilion County War Museum  Danville of 1915, and much more. Wheels O’Time Museum  Dunlap Russell Military Museum Galena & U.S. Grant Museum  Galena 43363 N. U.S. Highway 41  Zion Kankakee County Museum  Kankakee 847-395-7020  russellmilitarymuseum.com Seattle Sutton Marseilles Museum  Marseilles The Russell Military Museum encompasses 10 acres and is dedicated to preserving, restoring, Poplar Grove Vintage Wings & Wheels Museum  Poplar Grove and displaying military vehicles, equipment and Rock Island Arsenal Museum  Rock Island history from the Civil War to modern conflicts in Veterans Memorial Hall and Museum  Rockford Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 300 vehicles are on display, including many you won’t see Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center  Skokie anywhere else. Illinois State Military Museum  Springfield Air Classics Museum of Aviation  Sugar Grove

Visit arts.gov/bluestarmuseums for a complete list of participating museums.

enjoyillinois.com 43 alena may be best known for antique shops brimming with collectible treasures and a quaint 19th-century downtown. But history comes to life in the city. It’s everywhere you turn, courtesy of its famous citizen, Civil War general and 18th Gpresident of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant. Born in Ohio, Grant and his family moved to Galena in 1860, a year before the Civil War began. Grant worked as a clerk in his father’s leather goods store earning $600 a year until the war broke out. Armed with a West Point pedigree and 15-year military career, Grant was named colonel of the 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Soon after, President Lincoln elevated Grant to brigadier general, and Grant’s Generally Speaking, star continued to rise with each victory he led over the Confederate army. You’ll be transported back to Grant’s era at the Ulysses S. Grant Home State Historic Site, a meticulously appointed house given to Grant by the citizens of Galena when he returned home a Civil War hero in August 1865. When Grant’s popularity continued to surge after the war, he was encouraged to run for president. In 1886, he set up campaign headquarters at the DeSoto House Hotel, Illinois’ longest- operating hotel. While seated in the library of his close friend and political advisor, Elihu Washburne, Grant received the good news via telegraph that at age 46, he had become the youngest president-elect in U.S. history up to that time. You’ll feel right at home when you’re greeted holographically by Ulysses and GALENA’S Julia Grant at the Galena & OTHER GENERALS U.S. Grant Museum, an 1860 Italianate While Grant may be the most famous general mansion where you’ll from Galena, he is by no means the only one. be immersed With the utmost confidence in his hometown in the everyday military brothers, Grant promoted eight of life of Grant, see them to generals in the Civil War, and these authentic items fascinating men are just as intricately woven from his wardrobe into Galena’s history as is Grant. and view a replica General Ulysses S. Grant of his father’s store.

Article originally appeared in Galena Country Tourism guide

44 Generally Speaking, GALENA BOASTS the MOST! The 9 generals who made their mark on this region

—Abby Polonsky Galena Country Tourism

General John Aaron Rawlins was born in Galena in 1831. When his father left town to seek fortune in California during the Gold Rush, General Augustus Chetlain, known as the first man in Illinois to Rawlins took care of his mother, sister and six brothers. Rawlins volunteer at the outbreak of the by raising blamed his father’s lack of attention to his family on alcohol, so he Galena’s first volunteer company, the “Jo Daviess Guards,” in not only abstained from drinking but also tried to influence his close April 1861. Visit Chetlain’s boyhood home, where you can stay friend, Ulysses Grant, to do the same. overnight in one of six original log cabins built in the 1800s. General William Reuben Rowley, a native New Yorker, moved native General John Deur moved to Galena in 1860 to Galena to become a schoolteacher and was active in local at the age of 22 to launch a well-respected military career. After government. Grant’s neighbor, Rowley joined him in the battles of the war, he addressed the joyous citizens of Galena: “We went Shiloh and Vicksburg. Rowley rigorously defended Grant against forth to fight the battles of our country with the single purpose claims of drinking at the . of doing our duty, and if we have succeeded in convincing our friends at home in Galena that we have never fallen short of this, General John Corson Smith hailed from a highly patriotic our happiness is indeed complete.” family. Trained as a carpenter, he moved to Galena around 1854 and worked on notable projects including the General Jasper Maltby, an expert gunsmith with an enviable Methodist Church on Bench Street. Smith was part of the 96th military career, lived above his Galena gun shop with his wife Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and showed exceptional and son and commanded his Illinois troops in 1863 in Grant’s leadership and bravery, especially at the Battle of Chickamauga. operations against the Confederate defenses of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Swiss-born General John immigrated to Philadelphia as an infant. He became an expert jeweler and General Ely S. Parker was a Seneca Indian born in 1828 who moved with his young family to Galena in 1836, where he joined Grant’s personal staff two years into the Civil War. A operated a jewelry store on Main Street for 25 years. Smith year later he became Grant’s military secretary and served at was elected Jo Daviess County Treasurer and helped organize Grant’s side until Appomattox, where he copied the terms of the 45th Illinois Infantry, the “Washburne Lead Mine Regiment.” surrender given to Robert E. Lee.

enjoyillinois.com 45 ILLINOIS REST AREAS & TOURIST INFORMATION CENTERS

The Illinois Department of Transportation maintains a ? Galena  system of 30 rest areas and 10 tourist information centers 94 on highways throughout the state. These locations are open Rockford 24 hours and feature restroom facilities, picnic areas, lighted 90 39 walkways, maps, security cameras, and parking for recreational vehicles and commercial trucks, among other services. For more 88 Chicago information visit idot.illinois.gov.  80 TOURIST INFORMATION CENTERS Moline Rock Island 80  ? ? Cumberland Road  La Salle  I-70 Rest Area Westbound Peru 55 Route 3  Marshall   74 Kankakee Fort Massac 39 5402 Highway 45 South  Metropolis Galesburg 57 Homestead 74  I-55 Rest Area Northbound  Hamel Peoria Prairie View North  Normal  I-57 Rest Area Northbound Bloomington  Macomb North of Peotone Entrance Monee 155  74 Prairie View South  I-57 Rest Area Southbound Champaign South of Monee Exit  Monee 172 ? 72 Urbana Danville Rend Lake North Quincy  80N I-57 Northbound  Whittington  Springfield  Rend Lake South Decatur 78S I-57 Southbound  Whittington 72 57 Salt Kettle 55 I-74 Westbound  Oakwood ? Silver Lake  70 I-70 Rest Area Eastbound  Highland  Turtle Creek Engham I-90 Rest Area Southbound  South Beloit Alton  ? ?  Rest Area    64 ? Tourist Information  Mt. Vernon Center  64  ??

ILLINOIS REMEMBERS Carbondale POW/MIA MEMORIALS

Through the establishment of memorial signs at Illinois rest areas,  24 AMVETS and the Illinois Department of Transportation honor Illinois 57 service members who were prisoners of war or went . Cairo ? These memorials contain the names of those from communities nearby  the rest areas.