Mike G wrote:Chester Gould/Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock closing in June, also.
jlawrence01 wrote:By the way, have they ever reopened the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago? I was a member up until they closed down an excellent museum at the Chicago Cultural center to move to a bigger site that has not reopened.
Cathy2 wrote: if a politically well connected person like Bruce Dumont is having problems, how can my considerably less politically well connected friends fare better?
stevez wrote:Cathy2 wrote: if a politically well connected person like Bruce Dumont is having problems, how can my considerably less politically well connected friends fare better?
Perhaps by having less ambitious plans and not relying on the promises of politicians who may get voted out of office before making good.
Cathy2 wrote:Hi,
The following locations are scheduled to close this fall with no known date they will reopen. You may want to call in advance before heading out to them:
STATE HISTORIC SITES - Closing October 1st
— Dana-Thomas House, Springfield
— Lincoln log cabin near Charleston
— David Davis mansion, Bloomington
— Fort de Chartres, Randolph County
— Vandalia statehouse
— State center at Bishop Hill, Henry County
— Carl Sandburg birthplace, Galesburg
— Cahokia courthouse
— Bryant Cottage, Bement
— Jubilee College, near Peoria
— Apple River Fort, Elizabeth
— Fort Kaskaskia, Randolph County
— Pierre Menard home, Randolph County
STATE PARKS - Closing November 1st
— Castle Rock State Park, Oregon
— Lowden State Park, Oregon
— Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, Sheffield
— Illini State Park, Marseilles
— Channahon Parkway State Park, Channahon
— Gebhard Woods State Park, Morris
— Hidden Springs State Forrest, Strasburg
— Kickapoo State Park, Oakwood
— Moraine View State Park, Leroy
— Weldon Springs State Park, Clinton
— Wolf Creek State Park, Windsor
Regards,
Cathy2 wrote:jimswside,
You're comments parallel what I have heard on the museum-parks grapevine.
Regards,
abe_froeman wrote:The Dana-Thomas House will remain open through the end of November.
http://www.dana-thomas.org/
Cathy2 wrote:Hi,
Years ago, there was quite a sensation when Jim Onan, who owned a garage construction business and fantasy motel, built his fantasy home: a pyramid.
To benefit his church, he conducted tours of his pyramid home. I was fully expecting Egyptian style furniture with lots of animal heads bathed in gold leaf. The living room was obviously his wife's territory furnished with cozy, country style furniture in dusty rose and blue.
For years, you could see the tip of the house over the trees when travelling on either the tollway or 41. For a while, it was covered with a huge tent to either discourage gawkers or maintain the gold leaf. Recently the pyramid house came to mind. I could not recall anyone speaking of it for years.
I went looking for it recently and quickly found it. There is more information about it here. It is located on Dilley's Road, north of Stearns School Road, in Wadsworth.
For those who like their water local and with special attributes, they may be interested in pyramid water:
Lingering at the gate to take pictures isn't very welcome here. Yet there are plenty of images on the internet.
Regards,
Ms. Ingie wrote:Wasn't there a sphynx as well?
Cathy2 wrote:Ms. Ingie wrote:Wasn't there a sphynx as well?
I don't recall, though it would be fitting. If you notice his statue of an Egyptian King is up to its knees in gravel. The statue violated height restrictions, so he buried it partially to claim it was now suitable. He may have desired to dress up the property more, but his plans were likely stymied by local government authorities.
Regards,
Ms. Ingie wrote:http://www.fantasuite.com/Location.asp?LocationId=2
Aaron Deacon wrote:Ms. Ingie wrote:http://www.fantasuite.com/Location.asp?LocationId=2
Wow. Thanks for posting that.
Ms. Ingie wrote:Aaron Deacon wrote:Ms. Ingie wrote:http://www.fantasuite.com/Location.asp?LocationId=2
Wow. Thanks for posting that.
Not recommending the place, just think it's bizarre, although the steeple was kind of a cool honeymoon idea; the other rooms are just creepy.
Mike G wrote:The graves of Emma Goldman and some of those executed after the Haymarket Riot are in nearby Jewish Waldheim cemetery
delk wrote:Down the street from me....
skess wrote:delk wrote:Down the street from me....
As a Lincoln fan, this post intrigued me so I sought it out on Monday. Online information puts the plaque at 1238 W. Washington, but it seemed more like 1234. Fun to seek out, but made worth the trip by a visit to nearby Grazianos afterward for a sandwich and some groceries--my kind of a One-Two Punch.
Sarah Vowell wrote:No plaque marks the spot where Guiteau gunned down Garfield--zip.
I am pro-plaque. New York is lousy with them, and I love how spotting a plaque can jazz up even the most mundane errand. Once I stepped out of a deli on Third Avenue and turned the corner to learn I had just purchased gum near the former site of Peter Stuyvesant's pear tree. For a split second I had fallen through a trapdoor that dumped me out in New Amsterdam, where in 1647 the peg-legged Dutch governor planted a tree he brought over from Holland; until a fatal wagon accident, it bore fruit for more than two hundred years. To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened! The gum cost a dollar, but the story was free.