Illinois museum sets world record for sock monkey collection ...Middle East

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 for more than a year to determine his museum’s status as the “largest collection of handmade Sock Monkeys in the world.” The museum noted that the requirement included being handmade from “the iconic Nelson red heel sock that came from the Nelson knitting company in Rockford.” In total, the suburban Chicago museum had 2,098. Okun said the collection all started when fellow co-founder Arlene Okun discovered a Sock Monkey at a Cracker Barrel General Store i

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