Titanic exhibit in Skokie recreates rooms, shows artifacts, fills in story

The real story of the Titanic - far beyond the cinematic doomed love story of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet - can be found far from an ocean, but close to Chicagoans intrigued by the grandest ship that met one of the greatest disasters of its era. Amid a labyrinth of rooms in the former Bloomingdale's store at Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie, the saga of the luxury ocean liner touted as unsinkable features realistic exhibits starting with the ship's design and construction, portrayal of both first- and third-class life aboard and finally its demise after it struck…