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Trevor Hale posted:I legit love the Lincoln Library. the lincoln library genuinely owns, yes
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Monkey Fracas posted:Starved Rock is cool- go down there once a couple times a year at least. Unfortunately it's the closest hiking location to Chicagoland, and in the summer it attracts some pretty unbearable crowds. It's amazing in the winter though, too bad it doesn't seem to freeze like it used to.
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Monkey Fracas posted:Starved Rock is cool- go down there once a couple times a year at least. xzzy posted:Unfortunately it's the closest hiking location to Chicagoland, and in the summer it attracts some pretty unbearable crowds.
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Coworker was sounding off about school vouchers being cool and good today despite not actually knowing anything about them or how the tax deductions for private scholarships work (which is how he got onto vouchers). Then I realized I'm not clear on how it works or what the new school funding formula is. Where can I find what Illinois' new school funding formula is? Google is not helping. I don't even know if schools here get funded based on enrollment or something else.
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The massive surge of traffic is also fun to deal with.
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xzzy posted:Unfortunately it's the closest hiking location to Chicagoland, and in the summer it attracts some pretty unbearable crowds. There's Rock Cut just north of Rockford; no where near as large, but those trails go on for a good long while. It is, sadly, surrounded by frequently-traveled roads on nearly all sides, so it's hard to totally escape civilization (though that be a net benefit for Chicago assholes).
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Oracle posted:Starved Rock is more west than south.
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I'll never regret moving away from Illinois, except every time I crave some horseshoes and remember it's not a thing in other states 
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Carry a sheet of paper with the calories in a horseshoe and feel better about it.
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dwarf74 posted:It's neither? It's north-central, smack in the middle between Quad Cities-Chicago and Rockford-Bloomington. It's only "west" relative to Chicago, and South relative to ... well, techncially it's south of I-80 by a mile or two, I guess? It's not even as far south as Kankakee. Relative to Chicago is the only relation that matters in Illinois, friend, have you not been reading the thread?
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Carlton Banks posted:I'll never regret moving away from Illinois, except every time I crave some horseshoes and remember it's not a thing in other states "Horseshoe" is a bullshit poor excuse for local cuisine.
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dwarf74 posted:"Horseshoe" is a bullshit poor excuse for local cuisine. You hold your tongue. You don't know what you've got until you have to move, and then try explaining it to someone in Texas and they just shrug and say they can't do that, especially with toast, that's just for breakfast. I just want a drat horseshoe from a restaurant.
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look how many motherfucking carbs can you load onto this plate and cover in cheese and meat for me. (I am not a big fan of horseshoes, and was confused when my girl had me try one since I hadn't after living down here for a year or so)
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Dexo posted:look how many motherfucking carbs can you load onto this plate and cover in cheese and meat for me. I think one a decade is plenty. gently caress that noise.
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I was born and raised 30 minutes from Effingham towards Indiana. A local guy just announced a run for State Representative complaining about the increased income taxes. He's running as a Democrat.
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xzzy posted:Garden of the Gods is quite nice! there's a ton of really cool stuff down there, i did a big solo trip there years ago. giant city, fern clyffe, little grand canyon, garden of the gods, its all good also there's some good paddling right by starved rock if you're in that area at any point, wildcat rapids is actually a legit very short rapid with a good drop that i failed to run in an open canoe w/ my dad despite thinking we could do it finally, the reason half of chicago goes to michigan for vacations is that 90% of chicagoans are actually from michigan
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Oracle posted:Also this. They actually had to close both parks Memorial Day weekend cuz they were at capacity. STATE PARKS AT CAPACITY. Try to visualize the numbers of people necessary to make that happen. Oh god yeah. I should've gone to Kettle Morraine instead on Memorial Day. I'm like 20 minutes south of the WI border. Got in on one of the trailheads waaaay at the west end of the trail on MD down there and it was loving nuts
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Big Black Dick posted:Honestly, we don't think about it much. gently caress off to Iowa already.
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Dexo posted:Come to Springfield, we have all the Abe Lincoln stuff you could ever want to see. Flw Dana House is cool if you like architecture
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Are there any progressives actually running for Attorney General? I see all these skeazy guys being mentioned, but no progressives.
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Has anyone even officially thrown their hat in the ring? I thought it was all just speculation now anyway.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Has anyone even officially thrown their hat in the ring? I thought it was all just speculation now anyway. Drury.
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The X-man cometh posted:Are there any progressives actually running for Attorney General? I see all these skeazy guys being mentioned, but no progressives. Kwame Raoul announced today; he's pretty progressive. It's pretty shocking to see how badly the IL Democratic Party hosed this up. None of the Democrats have the money and/or campaign infrastructure to run a statewide campaign for AG. At least Erika Harold has the endless moneypit/media machine backed by Rauner, Uihlein, and Griffin. Hell, it'll be a scramble just to make sure they can get the petitions to get on the ballot. That's why the AG's race is particularly susceptible to deep-pocketed, machine-backed skeezers. Hell, that's why Ed Burke wanted his daughter to run. She'd probably win!
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no mention of how Daniel Biss looked like the new progressive hero for about 48 hours until the Israel lobby tapped him on the shoulder? also, this thread needs more discussion of where the dividing line is for whether people support the Cards/Blues or the Cubs/Hawks. (personally I'd argue it's slipping downwards, used to be around Peoria but since the Rivs moved and the Hawks got good it's now more towards Springfield. and even then the hockey team in Springy is trying to rebrand from "Jr. Blues" to avoid offending Hawks fans.)
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I've always seen Raoul work with the establishment, never the progressive Bloc. Don't count the Democrats out on any statewide race. Susana Mendoza had no money and Kirk outspent Duckworth and they both won big.
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Heath posted:Why does that last map place Peoria outside of Peoria county? Like East Peoria, which is in fact not in Peoria county That isn't the edge of the county, it's just really hard to see on the map. The poor parts of Peoria are gerrymandered into the democratic 17th district, and the rich parts are gerrymandered into the Republican 18th.
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Was I supposed to mention non-Chicago places to visit? Cahokia Mounds is the only UNESCO World Heritage site in the Midwest, so suck on that other great prairie states. Cahokia was the center of Mississippian culture for about 500 years.
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DalaranJ posted:Was I supposed to mention non-Chicago places to visit? Did they dig up a bunch of graves so that white people could come look at native bones like Dickson mounds did?
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They built a highway through the middle of it. Definitely worth a stop
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[quote="“vyelkin”" post="“476546581”"] lol I don’t even live in Chicago so I guess that makes me the dumb one in this scenario? [/quote] Everyone who doesn't actually live in Chicago is dumb. I'm sorry  I'm also married to a CPS teacher and I will never leave, running away to the suburbs or whatever (and saying they're from Chicago) is what lovely white people do, and I try not to be lovely.
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That's impossible. Everyone who lives in Illinois is dumb and last I checked Chicago is still part of Illinois.
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Galena is nice if you're a married 40 something looking for a romantic weekend. Or a big nerd who wants to see the Ulysses S Grant museum, which is pretty nice. Here's Raoul's official announcement: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155193561772408&id=152359934814831
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Scott Drury is my rep and I had no idea he had been running for governor until I read the OP. He just announced he's running for AG instead. Probably an easier target. I guess he's hoping his one claim to fame (voting against Madigan for leadership) will be enough to get downstate votes.
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Come to Peoria, we have... had... Caterpillar.
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Parasol Prophet posted:Come to Peoria, we have... had... Caterpillar. Come visit the historic CAT Visitor Center. By historic, I mean not being used anymore.
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There's a Caterpillar plant in Aurora over by Oswego, you don't gotta go all the way to Peoria. Though I think they're shutting that one down too. But hey as long as you're out there you can go to the Air Classics Museum.. with approximately 10 planes total! https://www.google.com/maps/@41.764...!7i13312!8i6656
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The Aurora plant is shutting down and moving some of the jobs down to Decatur. Which should counter some of the ADM jobs being moved out maybe?
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DalaranJ posted:Come visit the historic CAT Visitor Center. By historic, I mean not being used anymore. Don't worry, there's probably a CAT exhibit of some kind being run at the actual museum next door. Just make sure you visit our lovely riverfront area before everything there closes in anticipation of the main recreational area being torn down and turned into "green space" over however-many years. (Unless they're not doing that anymore. I haven't kept up with it.) Parasol Prophet fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Sep 21, 2017 |
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