Bishop Hill, Illinois, a tiny village in Henry County about 150 miles southwest of Chicago, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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The Illinois Town Frozen in the 1800s Where 85% of the Buildings Are on the Historic Register
In the far northwestern corner of Illinois, in a valley carved by the Galena River, […]
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The Chicago Park With a Giant Bean, Free Concerts, and Views That Stop People in Their Tracks
In the heart of downtown Chicago, where the glittering skyline meets the shimmering surface of […]