Blue Star Memorial Woods Preserve

Glenview, United States of America

Camp Skokie Valley was a United States Army installation built in Glenview, Illinois, north of Chicago. Its archaeological remnants are found in Blue Star Memorial Woods, a property owned and managed by the Cook County Forest Preserve District. Built in 1933 to house Civilian Conservation Corps labo

rers, working on the Skokie Lagoons Project, Camp Skokie Valley was left abandoned in 1942 and became a regular Army garrison. The camp was home to the 740th Military Police Battalion, a Zone of the Interior unit responsible for protecting defense plants and government assets in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. A portion of the installation housed German prisoners of war in 1945.

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Nearby

Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center musei · 2 km away
Statue of Liberty monumenti · 3 km away
Anita Willets Burnham Log House musei · 4 km away
Skokie Lagoons South monumenti · 4 km away
Wilmette Historical Museum musei · 4 km away
Gross Point Village Hall monumenti · 4 km away
Kohl Childrens Museum musei · 5 km away
Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum musei · 5 km away