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Chicago May Get Temporary Korean War Museum
The Navy Pier in Chicago may be in line for a new attraction: a temporary museum about the Korean War.

Officials with the Korean War National Museum are pursuing plans to build a museum to give people an idea about what a permanent museum might have in it. Ryan Yantis, the museum's executive director tells The State Journal-Register in Springfield that officials would also like to open other locations in the city.

The news may mark the end of an effort to build the museum in Springfield. Yantis says that his organization is focusing on a city that has a year-round tourist base.

At the same time, Yantis says there are no immediate plans to close the Denis J. Healy in downtown Springfield. The center was planned a precursor to a permanent museum, and it includes exhibits and artifacts from the war.

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