Planners organizing group tours will find many new itinerary brighteners in the region
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Take a look at what’s happening in the Midwest: ILLINOIS The Field Museum in Chicago presents Whales: Giants of the Deep, an exhibition running from May 20, 2011, through Jan. 16, 2012. It will feature fully articulated whale skeletons, hands-on activities, videos, and the latest findings in whale biology and evolution. Organized by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the exhibition will show how whales have influenced the indigenous peoples of the South Pacific. On display will be a pataka taonga (storehouse of treasures) carved with whale-like images and filled with adornments and weapons made of whale bone and teeth from places such as New Zealand and Fiji. (888-343-5385, fieldmuseum.org) By fall of 2012, “The Block,” a
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Field Museum visitors will see a replica of a blue whale’s heart.
downtown Peoria construction site once occupied by a Sears store, will be a parklike cultural campus anchored by the Peoria Riverfront Museum and Caterpillar Experience. The latter attraction
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