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In reply to the discussion: state by state speak your mind about...illinois [View all]GoCubsGo
(32,075 posts)15. I was born and raised there.
As Canon Ray pointed out, the northern part is the nicest. The rest is corn fields. However, there are loads of really cool archaeological sites in those cornfields, such as the Koster site and Cahokia Mounds
http://archaeology.about.com/cs/bookreviews/fr/koster.htm
http://cahokiamounds.org/
I miss Illinois, especially Chicago. But, I don't miss the winters, although thinking about them helps get me through South Carolina summers.
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I've lived in the Rosemont Horizon (now Allstate Arena) parking lot on occasion
Morning Dew
Feb 2012
#1
I grew up in Chicago and went to school downstate and hitchhiked through most of the rest.
CanonRay
Feb 2012
#11
Except for Chicago, Illinois is merely another shit hole like Indiana...n/t
dogfacedboy
Mar 2012
#47
Compared to the 8 million population of Chicagoland, yes, anywhere else is rural. Sorry.
dogfacedboy
Mar 2012
#48
We must have crossed it more than a dozen times on I-80--it's usually a stopping point
TwilightGardener
Feb 2012
#18
I wouldn't suggest trying to tell Mike Madigan that the legislature is dominated by Republicans.
WillowTree
Feb 2012
#33
Lincoln Logs were invented in Illinois by Frank Lloyd Wright's son, John Lloyd Wright
Brother Buzz
Feb 2012
#32
The University of Illinois at Chicago has just called Chicago the most corrupt city in U.S.
former9thward
Feb 2012
#43