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Papa Legba — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:08:01 -0000

The Rosemont water tower.

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anon — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:46:30 -0000

Someone from 70th and Pulaski listens to CSPAN?

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It makes cents... — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:04:37 -0000

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.

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Nearly Normal — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:13:13 -0000

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.

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Arthur Andersen — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:16:32 -0000

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)

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vole — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:59:39 -0000

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.

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zatoichi — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:57:35 -0000

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.

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Jake from Elwood — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:11:44 -0000

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.

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So-Called "Austin Mayor" — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:54:05 -0000

Haymarket Square and the graves of the Haymarket Martyrs.

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maggiemae — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:37:38 -0000

Dana Thomas House in Springpatch
Superman in Metropolis

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Concerned Voter — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:31:44 -0000

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.

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pickles!! — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:32:49 -0000

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!)

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pickles!! — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:29:44 -0000

Those are all great places, but Illinois is also the site of the 2016 Olympics, or else Daley will have a nervois breakdown

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one of the 35 — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:02:06 -0000

How about Old Main at Knox college in Galesburg (site of the Lincoln-Douglas debate)and the Muddy Waters Blues Museum in Westmont.

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publius — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:46:06 -0000

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

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Carl Nyberg — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:19:29 -0000

* 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

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Rayne of Terror — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:08:46 -0000

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.

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Anon — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:53:48 -0000

In southern Illinois....vacant business buildings (after being ran out of the state) and prisons, prisons, prisons!

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Objective Dem — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:53:10 -0000

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

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Anon — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:51:56 -0000

Dixie Grill, Funks Grove

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Mr. Ethics — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:47:04 -0000

The Stag Beer Can silo

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Bomber91 — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:46:02 -0000

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!

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FAN OF SO ILLINOIS — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:42:26 -0000

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!

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Grocery Guy — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:41:43 -0000

Small business owners in Chicago. But you better hurry -- they will be extinct after the Wal-Mart invasion later this year

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Lovie's Leather — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:37:55 -0000

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.