Anna Slafer of the International Spy Museum talks about the Chicago-area premiere of "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," a new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

Anna Slafer of the International Spy Museum talks about the Chicago-area premiere of "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," a new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

Anna Slafer of the International Spy Museum talks about the Chicago-area premiere of "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," a new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

This piece of one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center appears toward the end of "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," the Illinois Holocaust Museum's new traveling exhibition.| Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

Benjamin Smith, who grew up in Wilmette, went on a shooting rampage in 1999 targeting minorities. He is represented in "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America" at the Illinois Holocaust Museum. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

The Illinois Holocaust Museum's newest traveling exhibition, "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," traces a dark side of American history in a thoughtfully laid out chronology. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

The Illinois Holocaust Museum's new exhibition, "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," traces the history of a dark side of America. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

"Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," the Holocaust Museum's new exhibition, replicates a terrorist's basement with materials for a bomb inside. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

The Illinois Holocaust Museum's new exhibition, "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," illustartes the rise of hate groups in recent years throughout the United States. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

Calling cards used as tools of intimitation by the Ku Klux Klan are on display in "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," the Illinois Holocaust Museum's new traveling exhibition. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

The Illinois Holocaust Museum's new exhibition, "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," includes video footage tracing the history of the radical Weather Underground during the 60's and 70's. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

The Oklahoma City bombing is featured in the Illinois Holocaust Museum's new traveling exhibition, "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America." | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

The Illinois Holocaust Museum's new traveling exhibition explores the history of spies, traitors and saboteurs in the United States. The exhibition was created by the International Spy Museum. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

Seen here is the entrance to the Illinois Holocaust Museum's new traveling exhibition, "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," which will be on display through early January. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

Anna Slafer of the International Spy Museum talks about the Chicago-area premiere of "Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America," a new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

Illinois Holocaust Museum Chief Currator of Collections and Exhibitions Arielle Weininger oversees a collection of 17,000 pieces and brings diverse traveling exhibitions to Skokie. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media