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When the Adler Planetarium opened on the lakefront in May 1930, it became the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, bringing a German-built Zeiss projector and the night sky indoors to American audiences for the first time. The institution was funded by Max Adler, a Sears executive who stepped back from business to support astronomy education, and it opened to the public on his birthday. Its twelve-sided, rainbow-granite building, designed by Ernest Grunsfeld Jr., won an architectural med...