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Re: Question of the day

Quizzical — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:54:18 -0000

It's easy to live a decent life here. There's lots of places the working man and woman can afford to live, their neighbors most likely won't be unfriendly and there'll be a good place to eat and a good place to drink not too far away. While the politics isn't pretty, it is interesting. For their thirty peak years, both Saul Bellow and Muddy Waters lived here.

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Suzanne — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:06:58 -0000

Sailing on Lake Michigan in the fall, right before the marinas shutter for the winter. Full sails, pushing fast through the cold air. The skyline at sunset or a blue moon October night on the water. My kind of beautiful.

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Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:27:57 -0000

It's everything from:

Noticing the guys gather at key windy spots across the loop at lunch to watch the girls go by in their carefully-chosen skirts to...

Eating ice cream cones on sunny weekends near the Museum Campus, fully equipped with our kids, skates, bikes, and dogs to...

Joyfully anticipating the beginning of the new school year at the Bud Billiken parade to...

Dodging our never-ending traffic to get from work in the City to a school play in the Burbs to...

Wearing red, white, and blue to the Fourth of July parades on our Main Streets all across the State to...

Gossiping with the locals in the early AM before the day officially begins in Springfield to...

Heading out to our favorite farms to select the best pumpkin ever and to get spooked on a midnight hayride to...

Getting together with friends on a Friday evening to enjoy live music at one of our blues bars.

It's our people, our Midwestern values, our spirit, and the way we celebrate life! THAT's what makes Illinois great!!!

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47th Ward — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:12:49 -0000

There aren't too many hills, which is nice. Plus it's always been my home. Illinois: love it or leave it!

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Budget Watcher — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:05:18 -0000

KJ,

Naperville thanks you for those kind words.

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kj — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:09:51 -0000

The best city in America, period.

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Six Degrees of Separation — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:37:59 -0000

Fan-

I knew Mary Lou had retired, but didn't realize she'd passed away. I was introduced to her fine cuisine when some friends of mine decided to crash a party down at SIU one weekend...and Mary Lou's was recommended as an early morning "cure" for the after-effects. Here's a link to her obit.

http://www.thesouthern.com/...

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Elegius — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:00:27 -0000

Excellent local produce. Everything from peaches to garlic grows like gangbusters here. Also great wine, cheese, bread and meat. All of it available from Illinois farmers who don't work for Monsanto or ADM.

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South of I-80 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:58:50 -0000

The Fighting Illini and of course the farmlands... where else can you drive and see rolling hills, flat lands, and a host of different types of agriculture

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Fan of the Game — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:46:46 -0000

===- Six Degrees of Separation - Monday, Jul 14, 08 @ 2:13 pm:

Any state that contained Mary Louâ€™s Diner, Pizzeria Uno, Avantiâ€™s, and Buddy Guyâ€™s Legends canâ€™t be all bad.===

Loved Mary Lou's. May Mary Lou Trammel rest in peace!

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cermak_rd — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:45:41 -0000

It's a state that has welcomed everyone! I mean, is there an ethnic group not present in this state? And it hasn't insisted that immigrants be assimilated to the point of non-existence, but has allowed them to make their own choices and enrich our great state with their unique cultures, languages and foods. Mmmm, especially the foods.

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downhereforyears — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:32:44 -0000

Just think about Chicago's lakefront, the Shawnee National Forest, all the beautiful lakes in Lake County, a cruie down the Mississippi River, The Chicago Bears, Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs. But most of all it's people, 40 proud years of special olympics, and some of the finest hospitals in the world. Last but not least "It's the Restaurants" oh yeah.

Re: Question of the day

Six Degrees of Separation — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:13:26 -0000

Any state that contained Mary Lou's Diner, Pizzeria Uno, Avanti's, and Buddy Guy's Legends can't be all bad.

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anon2 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:02:03 -0000

Those stories that you see around harvest time when the farmers band together to bring in the crop of a deceased or ill neighbor make me want to stand up and sing God Bless America

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ybm — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:18:24 -0000

October surf sessions on Lake Michigan when the Alberta clipper comes down!

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jerry 101 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:02:52 -0000

Chicago
Urbana-Champaign
Peoria
Springfield
Galena
Shawnee National Forest
Cahokia
Lake Michigan
Chicago Botanical Gardens
Lincoln Park Zoo
The Art Institute
The Fighting Illini
The 2005 and soon to be 2008 World Series Champion Chicago White Sox.
100 years of failure by the Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Bears
Frank Lloyd Wright
Daniel Burnham
Louis Sullivan
Mies Van der Rohe
and many, many more things to love about this State.

The greatest State in all the land.

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Amy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:49:13 -0000

Starved Rock, Volo Bog, the Morton Arboretum. There's so much life beyond the big lake, although that's a great lake.

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Levois — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:19:49 -0000

Illinois has a nice lakefront on the north. A nice city on the lakefront. And farmfields in most of the state. I enjoy driving thru southern Illinois when I get the chance.

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Amuzing Myself — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:19:45 -0000

Illinois has a flat income tax of 3%.

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How Ironic — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:07:58 -0000

Galena IL, beautiful landscape, and tasty wine. Can't beat the combination!

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Q-C Transplant — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:46:54 -0000

As you drive south on I-74 between the Quad Cities and Galesburg, there is a strech where you enter a valley and you can see the exquisit fields in every direction for miles and miles. It is truly a sight to behold.

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Fan of the Game — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:40:39 -0000

Being from southern Illinois and currently living in central Illinois, I hear often the negatives about Chicago. However, it is a world-class city with tremendous arts, architecture, dining, industry, and entertainment. A fabulous city.

Our other areas have their fine points, also. Shawnee National Forest, Salem--Home of the GI Bill and William Jennings Bryan, Bobe's Pizza in Lawrenceville, deer hunting and Lincoln sites in Pike County, the horseshoe and the maid-rite, the rolling hills of Galena and the flat farms of Champaign, the abundant wineries (Thank you Bill McCartney and the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association!), our tremendous communitty college system that provides access to higher education for contless thousands who would be unable to further their educations otherwise, and Rueben sandwiches at Belgian Village in Moline and 17th St BBQ in Murphysboro.

But mostly, as others have said, it's the poeple. Friendly and caring in most places, they will help when help is needed. We saw this in spades during the recent flooding, but even on a day-to-day basis, we just have good folks.

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Dan S, a voter and Cubs Fan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:35:17 -0000

With all of the precious assets we have as a state why have we elected such an inept state government?

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Mr. Ethics — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:33:23 -0000

Horseshoe sandwiches in the State Capitol.

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anon — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:32:31 -0000

Jo Daviess County