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Illinois Tourist Attractions No One Knows About
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  • - September 24th, 2012, 9:32 am
    - September 24th, 2012, 9:32 am Post #121 - September 24th, 2012, 9:32 am
    Hi,

    Twenty years ago, you could still dine at Hotel Florence. They would have a monthly Victorian meal.

    Back then there were great hopes for a railroad museum to be located in the factory. There were plans for a railroad line from the Science and Industry Museum to the Railroad Museum. It all went up in smoke when a homeless person set fire to the factory.

    There are occasional architectural tours of Pullman where you learn a lot about the overall design, which administrator lived where, the bachelor quarters, worker's homes and the social set up.

    In East Chicago, there is another factory-developed community named Marktown designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw (who designed Lake Forest's Market Square).

    Regards,
    Cathy2

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