Cookie Jar Museum

Address:111 Stephen St.
Lemont, Illinois
Tel: (630) 257-5012

Very few visitors to Chicago actually head out to the Southwest Suburbs to visit the museums, since the ones in Chicago are among the best in the country. But, if cookie jars are more your type of art and collectibles than a Picasso or a Miro, Lemont, IL is the place you want to be. Or more correctly, WANTED to go. Lucille Bromberek took her personal collection of 2000 cookie jars and created a cookie jar museum, which in addition to some of the religious architecture and the historic canal, became a leading Lemont attraction. In her late-eighties she decided to close the museum.

We did not go to all the trouble of building a website just to tell you that the museum is closed. Chicagoland would not be the same and the Cookie Jar mecca has been moved and now Jazze Junque, Inc has opened the first cookie jar shop in Chicago. Technically not a museum (anyway, Chicago has enough of them), you can do everything you can do in a cookie jar museum, and in addition you can touch the displays and even buy them. You can even skip the "museum" part altogether and buy their cookie jars online. Remember the cookie jar in the movie Home Alone? Yup, it came from Jazze Junque. Jazze Junque is located at 3419 N Lincoln Avenue.

If you made it this far in the article, you probably are a fan of antique collectables and cookie jars. So, as your travels take you across our great nation, don't miss the cookie jar museums in Delavan, Wisconsin and Virginia City, Nevada. There are probably more. Let us know.