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Sure, it's home to big, brash Chicago, but there are a lot of lower-key historic and natural charms, too, including sites related to Abe Lincoln and Lewis and Clark (not to mention, more recently, Barack).

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6 awesome adventures for families in and around Chicago

Conchi Martinez Now that summer is almost upon us, family vacations are very much on the menu. For those interested in heading to the USA, this blog has covered the country's famous "Windy City" in various ways, including the jazz scene, multiculti dining, movie locations, the city's Spanish connections, and all-around cool attractions which appeal to most everyone. Chicago, and the surrounding area of Illinois, however, can also be aces for a brilliant family holiday. Let me count the…

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Litchfield's Ariston Café in 'Nostalgia Front & Center in Some U.S. Museums & Eateries'

Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame Louis Kaplan is channeling his childhood. While a youngster, he collected baseball cards which he stored in boxes and treasured as souvenirs of the USA's favorite pastime. Decades later, he’s reliving that time while visiting the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, upstate New York. Opportunities to recapture memories from the past are of course not limited to baseball, nor to New York. From Coca-Cola to cars, movies to museums,…

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5 fantastic places to visit in Chicago

Astride Lake Michigan, the USA's third largest city is a fantastic place to visit, from its highrise downtown - with famous buldings including 47-year-old Willis Tower (once the world's tallest building, and known as the Sears Tower) and the 1920s-era, neo-Gothic Tribune Tower - to some of the world's best museums and shopping, and gets around 50 million tourists each year. read post

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Chicago's Pullman Porter Museum cited in '12 Top Destinations for African-Diaspora Travel'

Welcome to February! Since 1970, it's also been Black History Month in the USA, and since 1995 in Canada, as well (whereas it's observed in October in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Netherlands). And though the reason for the African diaspora was tragic and horrific - the brutal, centuries-long trafficking of human slaves - it has also enriched many parts of the world, and indeed, world culture as a whole. So what better way to kick BHM off than with a look at a dozen of the most…

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Marcia Frost March 29, 2010 at 5:53pm

I moved to Champaign a year and a half ago. I'm really enjoying discovering different places in IL!
Diana Lambdin Meyer March 18, 2010 at 5:26am

I grew up in southern Illinois - just about as far south as you can go before your drop off in the MIssissippi/Ohio river convergence. Check out the Alto Vineyards feed, the Shawnee National Forest, Bald Knob G=Cross and the Giant City State Park. It's home - there's no place more beautiful.
Maureen Blevins March 5, 2010 at 7:05pm

I lived most of my life in Joliet, so I'm pretty familiar with the surrounding Chicagoland area. Lots to see and do - food nightlife, art - I could go on and on.
David Paul Appell August 12, 2009 at 3:52pm

Hmm, that's an interesting observation re Chicagoland nightlife, Tracey. Do you remember any details, like style of nightlife and/or club names?
Tracey Fuller August 10, 2009 at 11:52pm

Schaumburg and St. Charles are cool places to check out for nightlife in the Chicago burbs.