Museum · Zion, Illinois
Russell Military Museum
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A privately founded museum near Zion displaying over 300 military vehicles — tanks, jeeps, cannons, helicopters, and jet aircraft — grown from the founder’s surplus-equipment collection beginning in the 1970s.
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- 847-395-7020
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