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This Illinois Roadside Attraction Breathes Real Fire When Visitors Feed It a Special Token
There is a giant metal dragon sitting along Route 40 in Illinois…
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This Illinois River Bluff Landmark Is a 48-Foot Concrete Giant Weighing More Than 536,000 Pounds
There is a concrete giant standing on a bluff above the Rock River…
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This Illinois Museum Preserves a Viking Ship That Crossed 3,674 Atlantic Miles With Just 12 Crew Members
There is a Viking ship sitting in a suburb of Chicago, and most people…
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This Illinois Recreation Area Turned Nearly a Century of Strip-Mining Scars Into 2,842 Acres of Lakes and Trails
There is a place in east-central Illinois where the land itself tells a story…
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This Illinois Route 66 Restaurant in Dwight Keeps the Classic Road-Trip Diner Experience Alive With Homemade Comfort Food
There is a small town in Illinois where the spirit of America's most legendary…
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This Illinois Route 66 Drive-In Surrounds Burgers and Shakes With Life-Size Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and Blues Brothers Figures
There is a little roadside spot in northern Illinois where the 1950s never…
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This Illinois Vegetarian Restaurant in Evanston Began With Two Young Founders, Little Money, and No Restaurant Experience in 1979
Back in 1979, two young people with big ideas, nearly empty pockets, and zero…
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This Illinois Route 66 Restaurant Lets Diners Eat Among Race Cars, Vintage Gas Pumps, and Automotive Memorabilia
There is a restaurant in Springfield, Illinois, where the decor is not just…
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This Illinois Restaurant in Chicago Bakes Its Famous Pizza Upside Down and Flips It Tableside
There is a restaurant in Chicago where the pizza arrives upside down and gets…
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This Illinois Riverfront Estate Combines a Frank Lloyd Wright Redesign, Japanese Garden, and Dutch Windmill
There is a place along the Fox River in Illinois where a Victorian-era estate, a Japanese garden, and a Dutch windmill all…
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This Free Illinois Museum Lets Visitors Climb Into Massive Farm Machines and Explore Nearly Two Centuries of Innovation
There is a place in Illinois where you can climb up into the cab…
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This Illinois State Forest Covers More Than 5,000 Acres Near the Route Where Cherokee Families Endured a Deadly Winter
There is a stretch of southern Illinois where the land holds more than just…
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This Illinois Historic Site Marks the Exact Spot Where John Deere Forged His First Self-Cleaning Steel Plow
There is a small village in northern Illinois where American farming history…
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This Illinois River Town Offers Free Tours Through Restored Homes, Workshops, and Religious Buildings From the 1840s
There is a small river town in western Illinois where time seems to have…
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This Illinois Restaurant Fills a Restored 1902 Inn With Food, Craft Beer, and Small-Town History
There is a building in a small Illinois town that has been quietly watching…
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This Illinois Route 66 Roadhouse Once Had Tourist Cabins, a Dance Hall, Gambling, and an Alleged Brothel
There is a roadhouse along the old Route 66 corridor in Illinois that has…
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This Illinois Restaurant in Chicago Pairs Heritage Pork and House-Made Charcuterie With a European Beer Hall Setting
There is a restaurant in Chicago's Fulton Market district that has…
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This Illinois Restaurant in Chicago Celebrates Black Southern Cooking Through Short Ribs, Cornbread, and Macaroni and Cheese
There is a restaurant in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood that has people…
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This Illinois Restaurant in Chicago Became the World’s First Dining Room Inside a Department Store
There is a restaurant in downtown Chicago that has been feeding shoppers…
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This Illinois Historic Site Preserves a Native Village Landscape Along More Than Six Miles of Wooded Trails
There is a place in Rock Island, Illinois, where the land still carries the memory of the people who called it home…
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