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 ...

has nearly 2,100 of the snuggly stuffies Kate Hogan About 35 miles northwest of Chicago, there's some serious monkey business happening. Open since 2022, the Sock Monkey Museum houses nearly ...

Adele Jedynak makes monkey sounds to a group of kids who are steps away from playing Sock Monkey bowling and plush-primate parachuting. It's all part of the Sock Monkey Madness Festival ...

ROCKFORD — Soft sock monkey dolls and hard dinosaur bones. Both take center stage separately this weekend at the Sock Monkey Madness Festival at Midway Village Museum and PaleoFest at Burpee ...

“Sock monkey dolls make everyone smile,” said Dee Lindner, who is known as the Sock Monkey Lady. Lindner, 51, makes and sells old-fashioned sock monkeys using the same red-heeled work socks ...

ROCKFORD — What a joyride it’s been the past year for the nostalgic sock monkey. The cuddly doll that Rockford claims as its own creation has traveled national airwaves with a teddy bear ...

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 ...

Guinness World Records adjudicators Hannah Ortman and Chloe McCarthy visited the Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove on Thursday and verified the collection included 2,098 different sock monkeys.