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its known for me

Well, i dont really know the one im living in. But my hometown is home of the white squirrels.

The Joliet area is known for Mobsters, Prisons, The UNO card game and the Cooldude".

i think we're still celebrating the 1950's something basketball championship!!!
for cryin' out loud, they're water tower is painted like a basketball!!!

I forgot to mention the famous coach Gordie Gillespie from Catholic high and St. Francis college. He is a friend of the family. Mike Allstot the football player is also from Joliet via Gordie-G. Allstots mom was my moms Avon lady.

Well, Decatur is the birthplace of the Grand Army of the Republic, Named after Commodore Stephen Decatur, We're the former home of the Chicago Bears- they used to be the Staley Bears, and the former Soybean Capital of the world. There are lots of books written about how Decatur is one of the most haunted cities in IL, I think. Home of Millikin University, and I believe the 2005 IHSA high school womens basketball champs. Oh, and we had a gang brawl at a high school football game which led to about 9 kids being expelled for 2 years. Jesse Jackson came and tried to get the kids who were expelled back into school. He lost and snipers came and were stationed on top of the school because of all the fighting about it.

Cool!

Near Gurnee so my area is known for the pain in the butt traffic during the summmer for Great America, Gurnee mills mall, shopping galore at the intersections of Hunt Club road and 132, along with Hunt Club Farms (Rich and famous people live here). Gurnee is also known for the fantastic school district and the Warren High School Blue Devils. But we cant forget our ever so popular regular flooding Deplains River that washes us out at least once a year (or so it seems).
I remember this area when it was all farmers feilds for miles. Now along with all the stores is every single make of a car dealership that you can think of. Need a car? Come to Gurnee!!!

The first settler was Jonathan Tharp in 1824. Tharp opened a smokehouse in 1827, and in 1829 the town was laid out and named Pekin by the wife of Nathan Cromwell, one of the city's founders, for Peking (Beijing), China, which was at that time spelled "Peking" or "Pekin," spellings still common in German and French.
We are also known for the Illinois high school (Pekin) whose Chinese name resulted in a team nickname of Chinks, dating from the early 1900s. We were unaware of how demeaning the name was to Chinese. Pekin has had no Chinese residents. As someone pointed out, had we been from Rome high school, it would have been like calling ourselves Dagos. So the name was changed to Dragons in 1981.

These are some famous people born in Pekin
Scott D. Altman, astronaut
Mark Staff Brandl, artist
Sol Bloom (1870–1949), entertainment and popular music entrepreneur who billed himself as "Sol Bloom, the Music Man" and served for many years in the United States House of Representatives
Wyllis Cooper, writer for radio
Susan Dey, actress
Everett McKinley Dirksen, congressman and senator
Ethyl Eichelberger (1945-1990), influential figure in experimental theater
Brad Elvis, rock 'n' roll drummer
Th. Emil Homerin, scholar of religion and mysticism
Mike Isenberg, musician: member of 1970s Pekin rock group The Jets
The Jets, 1970s rock band (different than The Jets from Minneapolis)
Larry Kenney, actor
John T. McNaughton, Harvard Law School professor and Vietnam War planner
D.A. Points, professional golfer
Ormond Stone (1847-1933), astronomer, mathematician, and educator

Hey All!
About 10mi north of where I am is the water tower that is shaped and painted to look like a ketchup bottle. Another 20mi further is where Lewis &Clark began their expedition west.



SHANTI

Hey all!

DUH! I forgot, the thing that I enjoy the most, 8 or 9 miles north is Cahokia Mounds. The largest flat topped pyramid in North america.



SHANTI

Hi All,

Being from Decatur, we are proud of the fact that we were the original home of the Chicago Bears. They were founded by George Halas and he took them to Chicago for an exhibition game in 1919 and they drew such a big crowd that he moved them to Chicago in 1920. They were originally known as the Decatur Staleys.

my town is the binge drinking capitol of the country....fuck yea

My town is know as the lonest babes in town - was have college girls who try to rule but dont do a bang up job and sad thing is they leave and come back with a new attitude - Jacksonville girls love to party - find the right one and you will want to keep coming back and and secrets stay where secrets start - interested????????????

Prisons and genious's.

Des Plaines Illinois....
1955 Ray A.Kroc, 52, opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Ill. The first
day's take: $366.12. Kroc, a distributor of milk shake mixers, figures he can
sell a bundle of them if he franchises the McDonalds' business and install his
mixers in the new stores. Six years later Kroc buys out the McDonald brothers
for $2.7 million.

Well, let's see...
The Piasa Bird
The Great River Road
Winchester/Olin
The Mississippi River
Confluence of Rivers

MY city had the first rock'N'roll myc-D's in the country and one of the few remaning twin drive-inns

we have a crap load of black squirls in are town