I have no snark--I think it's a great idea--even though the current administration makes me want to be snarky about it.
Cahokia Mounds is an amazing archeological resource and if there is any snark it's how this administration and those before it refuse to take the steps to properly protect it from encroaching development.
DOWNSTATE
· 2 years ago
Bus tour of the empty governor's mansion to go along with a " sighting of the governor contest"[must have photo for proof] with a cash award to the winner.
d-town
· 2 years ago
A sights and smells tour of the Staley plant in Decatur. If you've driven over that bridge, you know what I'm talking about.
fedup dem
· 2 years ago
How about the utterly clueless nepotism-addicted County Board President here in Chicago, along with the incredibly-gullible electorate?
diane
· 2 years ago
Amazingly, Cahokia Mounds is studied extensively in Europe. In this country? Not so much. It is indeed a treasure and historic resource.
Pat Hickey
· 2 years ago
I always admired the Morraine north of Charleston Illinois - where the glaciers stopped. I also go in for Dogs Playing Poker and Pool oil paintings - craven south side sophisticate.
ZC
· 2 years ago
Cahokia Mounds sounds great, but for a wonder, I nominate the prehistorical archeological remains of democracy at 121 N. LaSalle.
VanillaMan
· 2 years ago
When I have international guests, these are the places on my short list to take them to discover Illinois:
Goose Lake Prairie - largest prairie preserve Illinois Beach - largest natural beach on the Lake Nauvoo - great views, great history on LDS Eureka College - small-town heartland of Reagan North Michigan Avenue - world class city Peoria Heights - Illinois river palisades New Salem - where Lincoln's spirit was born
cermak_rd
· 2 years ago
Is Cahokia Mounds also the historic site of the last ethical government that operated in Illinois?
Ali Bin Haddin
· 2 years ago
You have not been to Illinois unless you have seen:
1. Al Capone's grave 2. Prison cells occupied by former governors 3. Paul Powell's shoe box 4. Video tapes of Mayor Daley's crowd control techniques at the 1968 Democratic Convention 5. One state contract with price tags clearly visible 6. One ticket stub from the last Cub's World Series triumph. 7. One road map of the state with exits clearly marked for vacations in Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri and Indiana. 8. One play in Peoria 9. The headquarters of the Women's Christain Temperance Union 10. The Sanitary Canal
Gene Parmesan
· 2 years ago
The Double-Decker Outhouse in Gays, Illinois has to be on this list.
winco
· 2 years ago
the entire state could be billed as a wonder--The Bermuda Triangle of Taxpayer Money.
For specifics, one could visit McCormick Place, the Dan Ryan Expressway, and O'hare's expansion. Downstate and the suburbs have their share too, I am sure.
Ali Bin Haddin
· 2 years ago
And More to see and do! 1. Dick Durbin's flip-flops. 2. Barak Obama's ash tray. 3. The gov's private stash of hair care products 4. Mike Madigan's underlined copy of "The Prince". 5. Hillary Rodham Clinton's birthplace. 6. Jesse Jackson's love nest. 7. Minor league baseball in Marion 8. Minor league baseball at Wrigley Field 9. Bears 1985 Superbowl trophy polished with tears from 2006-07 season 10. Restored site of the St. Valentine Day's massacre.
Anon from BB
· 2 years ago
How about the car/spike "sculpture" in Berwyn?
OneMan
· 2 years ago
The unused manson in Springfield The Dolton fountain funded by the state with the help of the Shaws Fully built yet empty jails
Buck Turgidson
· 2 years ago
The Illinois Republican Party HQ ruins in Springfield.
See the fossilized remains of a once-relevant society, devastated by civil war, theft, ineptitude, and invaders from the East Coast. Buy a keychain bearing the likeness of the mythical creature known as "The Umholtz."
jaundiced eye
· 2 years ago
Any and all sections of the Great River Road as long as you punctuate the trip by stopping in some non-touristy towns, have a beer, search for the perfect pork tenderloin sandwich and listen to what locals are talking about. Also Quincy for not only a great historic district but also the darkest bar in IL: The Patio restaurant in a seedy hotel. Farnsworth House ("glass house") out in Denny Hastert's neighborhood. You can compare how it looks with the thousands of really ugly look-alike houses that are replacing farmland out that way.
Goofy Ridge, and any number of County Courthouses throughout the State. Also most of the places found on the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency annual calander. Good grief, I wish the smell in Decatur wasn't mentioned. Won't be able to do lunch now!
Pat N Mike
· 2 years ago
The Stockyards Gate.
Some Guy
· 2 years ago
Mixing real w/ fake
1) Former territorial capitol of Kaskaskia. You have to go through Missouri to get there. 2) Galena hills 3) Cahokia Mounds 4) Black Hawk statue 5) The Secret vault of Al Capone 6) the many-times toppled Haymarket statue 7) a shirt store in Alsip
Belle
· 2 years ago
The Dave Matthews tour on the Chicago River, complete with dinner, drinks and a demo.
Goodbye Napoleon
· 2 years ago
* Tony's Italian Beef 70th / Pulaski It is a wonder of the culinary world.
Sorry for the off topic comment, but for all Sirius satelite radio subscribers: They are planning to drop C-SPAN from their channel line up. If this annoys you as it does me, please contact them and complain ASAP. Thanks!
Lovie's Leather
· 2 years ago
You can't really see Illinois without seeing the monument to where our governors have spent most of their time... wait, I mean the Dirksen Federal Building. My bad.
Grocery Guy
· 2 years ago
Small business owners in Chicago. But you better hurry -- they will be extinct after the Wal-Mart invasion later this year
FAN OF SO ILLINOIS
· 2 years ago
The Beatles Museum and Bed & Breakfast in Benton, Illinois.
Rend Lake in Ina, Illinois
The Perfection Restaurant in Du Quoin, Illinois
Southern Illinois, in general!
Bomber91
· 2 years ago
Come see the mystery house on the corner of 5th and Jackson in Downtown Springfield.
They say it's haunted by the ghosts of Governor's past. What's that in the distance? It looks like a floating hair brush! Scary stuff kids!
Mr. Ethics
· 2 years ago
The Stag Beer Can silo
Anon
· 2 years ago
Dixie Grill, Funks Grove
Objective Dem
· 2 years ago
The old Chicago court house at Hubbard and Dearborn. A lot of famous trials like Loeb/Leopold and the Black Sox scandal were held here. It is also the setting for the Ben Hect play "Front Page"
* Bubbly Creek in Chicago (where the water bubbles from decomposing animal waste from the stockyards) * Sites of John Wayne Gacy's homes in Chicago and Springfield * Site of Dr. Holme's house of horrors (Devil in the White City) * Site of Everleigh Club * Site of the St. Valentine Massacre
Anon
· 2 years ago
In southern Illinois....vacant business buildings (after being ran out of the state) and prisons, prisons, prisons!
Rayne of Terror
· 2 years ago
While visitors are in Decatur for the smell, they can stick around for the Avon Theater, the west end bike path, and a tour of the giant piles of tree branches still lining the roads from last year's ice storm.
Carl Nyberg
· 2 years ago
* Lake Michigan * Mississippi River * Cahokia Mounds * Garden of Gods * Starved Rock * Chicago Skyline * Michael Jordan * Al Capone * Daley political dynasty * Wrigley Field * O'Hare Airport
publius
· 2 years ago
how about the homes of presidential wannabes like frank lowden, lar-america first-daly, adlai stevenson,john anderson, hillary clinton, jesse jackson and barack obama
one of the 35
· 2 years ago
How about Old Main at Knox college in Galesburg (site of the Lincoln-Douglas debate)and the Muddy Waters Blues Museum in Westmont.
pickles!!
· 2 years ago
Those are all great places, but Illinois is also the site of the 2016 Olympics, or else Daley will have a nervois breakdown
pickles!!
· 2 years ago
oh, and don't forget our biggest attraction in Peotone, the sigh advertising the future home of Abraham Lincoln airstrip and crash landing site (LOL!)
Concerned Voter
· 2 years ago
Don't forget to check out the lovely wildflowers planted along the interstate, and what about the ghost prison(s) that were built, the ones that have nobody to staff them and no prisoners.
maggiemae
· 2 years ago
Dana Thomas House in Springpatch Superman in Metropolis
So-Called "Austin Mayor"
· 2 years ago
Haymarket Square and the graves of the Haymarket Martyrs.
Jake from Elwood
· 2 years ago
Here are the seven JfE wonders: 1. The Henry County Courthouse (2nd place-Ottawa Appellate Courthouse) 2. Rip's Chicken in Ladd--worth the wait in line. 3. The rolling hills of Galena 4. Lake Michigan as viewed from Beach Park State Park. 5. Mathessian State Park in LaSalle County--better than Starved Rock! 6. Cahokia Mounds--a given. 7. Millenium Park--both as an attraction and as a testament to government waste and graft.
zatoichi
· 2 years ago
1. Coney Island Hotdogs in Springfield - What transfats? 2. Any slow pitch, 16" softball game in Chicago. 3. Metro - pick a Saturday night. 4. Train Museum in Dupage County 5. Science and Industry 6. Superman statue in Metroplis. 7. Rail in the Capital to leave your fingerprints 8. Ike's in Charleston 9. My backyard - tourist trap rip-off, tax write off of course. 10. Left field bleaches in Wrigley on a hot sunny day with beer, chips, and brats.
vole
· 2 years ago
For 4 months -- corn, bean, corn, beans, corn, beans. For 8 months -- grey field, black field, grey field, black field. Illinois, the greatest sacrificial landscape in America.
Arthur Andersen
· 2 years ago
a few more not on the list yet:
-Northerly Island/Meigs Field (aka worst April Fool joke ever)
-8XX N. Elston, Chicago (Tony Rezko's office, where most Blagojevich appointment, contract, and other decisions were apparently made until the Feds came calling)
-Renaissance and Collinsville Hotels (you pay to stay, they don't)
-Sen. Dick "Dick" Durbin's magic front yard in Springfield (where he miraculously turns from a flaming liberal to a reasoned moderate for the hometwn TV cameras)
-The Obams/Gutierrez Chicago Home Show (The "Rich Dad" approach to real estate investing where you, too, can score big on the purchase of your very own house by insider buying below market and paying almost nothing in property taxes)
Nearly Normal
· 2 years ago
Take a trip on Route 66. Lots of places to see along the Mother Road. That includes the Dixie which is in McLean not Funks Grove. However, there will be maple syrup made in March in Funks Grove now that we finally got some cold weather.
It makes cents...
· 2 years ago
The Crenshaw House, commonly known as the Old Slave House, in Equality was built in 1838 and is the only known location in Illinois where blacks were kept as slaves before, during and after the Civil War.
All Comments
Cahokia Mounds is an amazing archeological resource and if there is any snark it's how this administration and those before it refuse to take the steps to properly protect it from encroaching development.
Goose Lake Prairie - largest prairie preserve
Illinois Beach - largest natural beach on the Lake
Nauvoo - great views, great history on LDS
Eureka College - small-town heartland of Reagan
North Michigan Avenue - world class city
Peoria Heights - Illinois river palisades
New Salem - where Lincoln's spirit was born
1. Al Capone's grave
2. Prison cells occupied by former governors
3. Paul Powell's shoe box
4. Video tapes of Mayor Daley's crowd control techniques at the 1968 Democratic Convention
5. One state contract with price tags clearly visible
6. One ticket stub from the last Cub's World Series triumph.
7. One road map of the state with exits clearly marked for vacations in Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri and Indiana.
8. One play in Peoria
9. The headquarters of the Women's Christain Temperance Union
10. The Sanitary Canal
For specifics, one could visit McCormick Place, the Dan Ryan Expressway, and O'hare's expansion. Downstate and the suburbs have their share too, I am sure.
1. Dick Durbin's flip-flops.
2. Barak Obama's ash tray.
3. The gov's private stash of hair care products
4. Mike Madigan's underlined copy of "The Prince".
5. Hillary Rodham Clinton's birthplace.
6. Jesse Jackson's love nest.
7. Minor league baseball in Marion
8. Minor league baseball at Wrigley Field
9. Bears 1985 Superbowl trophy polished with tears from 2006-07 season
10. Restored site of the St. Valentine Day's massacre.
The Dolton fountain funded by the state with the help of the Shaws
Fully built yet empty jails
See the fossilized remains of a once-relevant society, devastated by civil war, theft, ineptitude, and invaders from the East Coast. Buy a keychain bearing the likeness of the mythical creature known as "The Umholtz."
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/neptune.html
1) Former territorial capitol of Kaskaskia. You have to go through Missouri to get there.
2) Galena hills
3) Cahokia Mounds
4) Black Hawk statue
5) The Secret vault of Al Capone
6) the many-times toppled Haymarket statue
7) a shirt store in Alsip
Sorry for the off topic comment, but for all Sirius satelite radio subscribers: They are planning to drop C-SPAN from their channel line up. If this annoys you as it does me, please contact them and complain ASAP. Thanks!
Rend Lake in Ina, Illinois
The Perfection Restaurant in Du Quoin, Illinois
Southern Illinois, in general!
They say it's haunted by the ghosts of Governor's past. What's that in the distance? It looks like a floating hair brush! Scary stuff kids!
* Bubbly Creek in Chicago (where the water bubbles from decomposing animal waste from the stockyards)
* Sites of John Wayne Gacy's homes in Chicago and Springfield
* Site of Dr. Holme's house of horrors (Devil in the White City)
* Site of Everleigh Club
* Site of the St. Valentine Massacre
* Mississippi River
* Cahokia Mounds
* Garden of Gods
* Starved Rock
* Chicago Skyline
* Michael Jordan
* Al Capone
* Daley political dynasty
* Wrigley Field
* O'Hare Airport
Superman in Metropolis
1. The Henry County Courthouse (2nd place-Ottawa Appellate Courthouse)
2. Rip's Chicken in Ladd--worth the wait in line.
3. The rolling hills of Galena
4. Lake Michigan as viewed from Beach Park State Park.
5. Mathessian State Park in LaSalle County--better than Starved Rock!
6. Cahokia Mounds--a given.
7. Millenium Park--both as an attraction and as a testament to government waste and graft.
2. Any slow pitch, 16" softball game in Chicago.
3. Metro - pick a Saturday night.
4. Train Museum in Dupage County
5. Science and Industry
6. Superman statue in Metroplis.
7. Rail in the Capital to leave your fingerprints
8. Ike's in Charleston
9. My backyard - tourist trap rip-off, tax write off of course.
10. Left field bleaches in Wrigley on a hot sunny day with beer, chips, and brats.
-Northerly Island/Meigs Field (aka worst April Fool joke ever)
-8XX N. Elston, Chicago (Tony Rezko's office, where most Blagojevich appointment, contract, and other decisions were apparently made until the Feds came calling)
-Renaissance and Collinsville Hotels (you pay to stay, they don't)
-Sen. Dick "Dick" Durbin's magic front yard in Springfield (where he miraculously turns from a flaming liberal to a reasoned moderate for the hometwn TV cameras)
-The Obams/Gutierrez Chicago Home Show (The "Rich Dad" approach to real estate investing where you, too, can score big on the purchase of your very own house by insider buying below market and paying almost nothing in property taxes)