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Route 66 in Illinois is also famous for some very quirky jumbo-size attractions, such as the former Bunyon's Paul Bunyan statue, a 19-foot (5.8 m) "Muffler Man" giant originally from a Berwyn hot dog shack that now stands in the quaint downstate community of Atlanta; the similar Gemini Giant in Wilmington; the largest wind farm East of the ...
Below is a list of covered bridges in Illinois.There are nine authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Illinois.Five of them are historic. [1] A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction.
U.S. Route 52 (US 52) in the state of Illinois is a surface road that traverses the north central and eastern portions of the state. It runs from the Dale Gardner Veterans Memorial Bridge over the Mississippi River between Sabula, Iowa, and Savanna with Illinois Route 64 (IL 64) southeast to the Indiana state line near Sheldon with US 24.
Roughly along N. State St. from the 300 block to the 1100 block 40°01′51″N 88°34′15″W / 40.030833°N 88.570833°W / 40.030833; -88.570833 ( North State Street Historic Monticello
The octagon shaped Atlanta Public Library is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As of the census [6] of 2000, there were 1,649 people, 694 households, and 469 families residing in the city.
The J. H. Hawes Elevator is a historic grain elevator located on 2nd Street in Atlanta, Illinois. The elevator was built in 1903 along the Illinois Midland Railroad; it was used to store locally farmed grain before the railroad shipped it to cities such as Peoria, Decatur, and Terre Haute, Indiana. Built by McIntyre and Wykle, the elevator is ...
Aspire Construction & Design has been named the CO—100 Top Honoree in the Micro-Business Leaders category. Here’s how this woman- and minority-owned commercial AEC firm has thrived.
Southern Railway's 1918 facility, named Peachtree Station but known locally as Brookwood Station, has been Atlanta's only long-distance passenger rail stop since 1970. Amtrak took over Southern's Crescent route in the '70s, which (as of 2015) continues to operate between New Orleans and N.Y. City .