May 4 - November 4, 2016 - This new corridor installation examines the life, death, and sartorial swagger of the famously dissolute and fabulously attired Landsknechte of Renaissance Europe. These German mercenary foot soldiers behaved badly and wore whatever they wanted because their life expectancy was brief at best. While much of the arms and armor collection is off view in preparation for th...

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May 5, 2015 – October 16, 2016 - This panel exhibition examines both the history of that period and the on-going trials. For three years, eight months, and twenty days, the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot ruled Cambodia, enacting a program of harsh internment and torture and subjecting the Cambodian people to inhumane living conditions, starvation, forced labor, forced marriages,...

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May 7-8, 2016 - The market includes more than 200 vendors featuring gardening items, antiques, art collectibles, vintage clothing and more. Offered for sale will be a variety of antiques and collectibles, including country furniture, estate jewelry. Victoriana, postcards, art glass and porcelains, advertising items, old toys, vintage clothing and linens, coins, decorator items, paintings, primitiv...

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The 7,500-square-foot Model Railroad Garden: Landmarks of America exhibition features trains running on 1,600 feet of track. The garden-scale trains are 1/29th the size of life-size trains. Train and garden enthusiasts, young and old, return year after year for the delightful sights and sounds of the miniature trains traversing high and low through tunnels, across bridges, and around buildings. J...

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May 7, 2016 - June 18, 2017 - Selected from the MCA’s collection, the works rarely exhibited together were created over the span of more than 60 years in response to diverse historical and social contexts. Collectively, however, these pieces prompt a larger conversation that asks viewers to consider that art objects often achieve their fullest value when viewers approach them from multiple a...

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The 2016 annual meeting and convention will be held in Chicago, Illinois at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel and Conference Center.​ The annual convention is held over a four day weekend every Spring in different locations around the United States making it easily accessible to all members.  It is a fun and relaxing time for avid scale collectors to get together to share their h...

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May 13-14, 2016 - The Hyde Park Garden Fair will help fulfill your garden needs and plans. If you are dreaming of a lush, beautiful garden, you will find hundreds of flats of annuals in every color and form, 1,000 pots of perennials, large numbers and varieties of beautiful hanging baskets and geraniums, and unique vines, trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Event held at Hyde Park Shopping Center. &...

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May 14-15, 2016 - This Belleville gun show is held at Belle Clair Fairgrounds and hosted by ECA Hunting and Trade Shows of Illinois. All federal, state and local firearm ordinances and laws must be obeyed. There will be an opportunity to BUY - SELL - TRADE and a lot of Guns, Knives, Ammo and Scopes! This is the largest Hunting and Trade Show of Illinois so don't miss it!! Sunday 9:00am &ndas...

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May 21-22, 2016 - Antiques, vintage, vintage jewelry, vintage clothing, collectibles, mid century modern, vintage clothing, vintage furniture, vintage jewelry, vintage decor, vintage home, vintage experts, decorative arts, vintage lighting, decorating, design, and more. The Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois is conveniently located in the beautiful Fox River Valley, just an hour from Ch...

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May 21 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibition reunites for the first time the surviving photographs and texts intended for the two projects, including never-before-seen photographs by Parks from the collections of the Art Institute and the Gordon Parks Foundation and unpublished manuscripts by Ellison. Revealed in these frank depictions of Harlem is Ellison and Parks’s symbiotic insistence on makin...

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