Sock monkeys were hanging from the rafters Thursday at the Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove. They also were spilling out of barrels, hanging from decorative trees and tucked into innumerable nooks, ...

The Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove, Ill. About 35 miles northwest of Chicago, there's some serious monkey business happening. Open since 2022, the Sock Monkey Museum houses nearly 2,100 of the plush ...

Aug. 11 (UPI) --A museum in the Chicago suburbs broke a Guinness World Record with a display of 2,098 sock monkeys. Guinness World Records adjudicators Hannah Ortman and Chloe McCarthy visited the ...

HAYWARD — Dee Lindner didn't always know she'd become the "Sock Monkey Lady." The first time she recalls having seen a sock monkey was in the early 1970s, when her grandmother gave one to her nephew.

Arlene Okun bought a cute stuffed monkey made out of a pair of socks at a gift store 16 years ago. That led to her seeking the plush primates on eBay and via flea markets, and eventually opening up a ...

HUDSON, Wis. -- Some muses come and go, but for photographer, author and crafts pro Dee Lindner, the red-heeled sock monkey is eternal. “The giggles and smiles my work generates and the sentimental ...

An Illinois museum's sock monkey collection has officially set a Guinness World Record. Michael Okun, the co-founder of the Illinois Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove, said he had been working with ...