(Above) Museum of Broadcast Communications from across State Street in 2011.

By Steven Dahlman

16-Mar-25 – River North will be the temporary home of the Illinois Holocaust Museum, located in Skokie, while the museum is closed for renovation.

Starting in July, and for one year, the museum will be open seven days a week at 360 North State Street, the previous location of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, which closed in 2023.

“Expanded facilities are needed to meet the growing needs of visitors and the community,” says the museum on its website.

Renovations to the Skokie museum, which the museum calls “a significant upgrade to the facilities,” will include a new, bigger lobby; a new visitor welcome center; a redesigned, state-of-the-art auditorium; and a “reflection space.”

(Left) Rendering of new lobby planned for Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie.

The River North location, says the museum, “will feature several world-class exhibitions for the public to engage with in person,” including stories of survivors of the Holocaust and genocides across time and geography.

The Skokie location will start to re-open in January and should be fully re-open in late summer of 2026.