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Category: Illinois
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Ricobene’s is a foodie’s unapologetic Chicago food experience
If you are hunting for the ultimate, unapologetic Chicago food experience, bypass the trendy downtown spots and head straight to the South Side. You need […]
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A Swedish Utopian Colony Settled This Illinois Town in the 1840s, and Their Buildings Are Still Standing
Bishop Hill, Illinois, a tiny village in Henry County about 150 miles southwest of Chicago, is one of the most unusual and historically significant communities […]
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A Rock Formation So Strange That Scientists Had to Invent a New Word to Describe It
The Garden of the Gods in Elizabethtown, Illinois, in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest, is an otherworldly collection of ancient sandstone formations that […]
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A City of 20,000 People Thrived Here 1,000 Years Ago. Almost Nobody in Illinois Knows It Existed.
Across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, in the floodplain of southwestern Illinois, the remains of the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico spread across […]
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The Chicago Suburb Where Frank Lloyd Wright Invented an Entire Architectural Style From His Living Room
In the leafy, historic suburb of Oak Park just west of Chicago, on a quiet corner of Forest Avenue, stands the house where Frank Lloyd […]
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The Mile-Long Chicago Pier With a Giant Ferris Wheel, a World-Class Theater, and Fireworks Twice a Week
Stretching nearly a mile into the waters of Lake Michigan from the northern edge of Chicago’s downtown lakefront, Navy Pier is one of the most […]
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There Are Bald Cypress Swamps in Illinois, and Almost Nobody Outside the State Knows About Them
At the southern tip of Illinois, where the state narrows to a point between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the landscape transforms dramatically. The Shawnee […]
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You Can Stand in the Living Room Where Lincoln Paced Before Becoming President
In a quiet neighborhood of 19th-century homes in the heart of Springfield, Illinois, the house where Abraham Lincoln lived for 17 years before becoming president […]
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Most People Think Illinois Is Flat. This Canyon Park Two Hours From Chicago Proves Them Wrong.
In the rolling farm country of north-central Illinois, between the towns of Utica and Ottawa, the Illinois River has carved a stretch of canyon landscape […]