Harry--
Someone beat me to it; you have their phone number already! The First Division
Museum, 1 S 151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, IL 60187 is about 20 minutes due west
of downtown Chicago (90 minutes during rush hours!). The director is Dr. John
Votaw, a retired colonel. Web site is http://www.rrmtf.org/cantigny/index.htm
The museum is part of a larger organization, a former estate, called Cantigny.
It belonged to Col. Robert McCormick, publisher of the "Chicago Tribune."
Cantigny also has a historic-home museum and wonderful grounds--which are well worth
seeing as well (they even have a golf course on the grounds!).
The First Division Museum grew out of McCormick's involvement with the First
Division, which he served in during WWI. The name Cantigny is taken from a French
village that the Division helped save. The museum has been there for years,
but a new building with a more interpretive and thematic approach was opened in
1992 or so. It traces the involvement of the Division in conflicts from WWI
through the Gulf War.
--Todd Happer
Scientific American
On 6/2/99, Museum discussion list wrote:
>I have seen photos of a museum in Illinois dedicated to the US First
>Infantry Division. Can anyone tell me the exact name, city/town and, if
>possible, phone number? I would like to visit the museum when I am in
>Chicago for VSA but have been unable to obtain contact info.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Harry
>
>Harry Needham
>Special Advisor - Programme Development
>Canadian War Museum
>330 Sussex Drive,
>Ottawa, Canada
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