Thornton Historical Society Museum

Thornton Historical Society Museum is a museum in Township of Thornton, Cook, Illinois which is located on North Hunter Street. Thornton Historical Society Museum is situated nearby to the town hall Thornton Village Hall, as well as near Thornton Public Library.

Email: thorntonilhs@gmail.com
Type: Museum
Address: 114 North Hunter Street, Thornton, IL 60476

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Homewood Memorial Gardens and Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens.

Homewood Memorial Gardens

Cemetery

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Homewood Memorial Gardens is a privately owned cemetery in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois. Many other unrelated cemeteries share variations of this name. This site may have formerly been called Oak Lawn Cemetery. Homewood Memorial Gardens is situated 1 mile west of Thornton Historical Society Museum.

Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens

Cemetery

Photo: Nick Number, CC BY 4.0.

Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens is a cemetery, which is situated 1 mile south of Thornton Historical Society Museum.

Thornwood High School

School

Thornwood High School is a public high school located in South Holland, Illinois, United States. It was built as part of Thornton Township High School District 205. Thornwood High School is situated 1 mile north of Thornton Historical Society Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thornton and East Hazel Crest.

Thornton

Village

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Thornton is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 2,386 at the 2020 census. Thornton is home to the Thornton Quarry, one of the largest quarries in the world.

East Hazel Crest

Village

East Hazel Crest is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a south suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census, the village population was 1,297. East Hazel Crest is situated 2 miles west of Thornton Historical Society Museum.

Glenwood

Village

Glenwood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 8,662 at the 2020 census. It is a south suburb of Chicago. Glenwood is situated 2 miles south of Thornton Historical Society Museum.

Thornton Historical Society Museum

Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Township of Thornton, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.56908° or 41° 34′ 9″ north

Longitude

-87.61155° or 87° 36′ 42″ west

Operator

Thornton Historical Society

Open location code

86HJH99Q+J9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 14248931061

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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