Category Archives: Illinois

I took a bus into Chicago with a group from work. For lunch, we headed over and up to the Signature Room on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Center. It was a clear, sunny day with temperatures near … Continue reading →

I discovered this place a few years ago while looking on the Internet for good places for pie, but I’d never been there. I stopped by with my wife on a very cold, late Tuesday afternoon. It’s in the Ukrainian … Continue reading →

Whenever I flew out of Midway Airport, I noticed this thing hanging from the ceiling. I couldn’t help noticing it. It hangs right over the security gates. It looked like a poorly-hung blue drapery of some sort, or maybe a … Continue reading →

Our trip home took us through Beardstown, Illinois, the home of the only courthouse in which Abraham Lincoln practiced law that is still used to try cases. The building was erected in 1844. I knew that no tours were being … Continue reading →

We drove south along the Mississippi for a couple miles to Elsah, Illinois, a small village founded in 1853. Not much has changed since the late 1800s and the entire village has been placed on the National Register of Historic … Continue reading →