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Odd
& Fun Roadside Illinois

Des
Plaines Historical Society - Des Plaines, IL
Frank
Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust - Oak Park, Illinois
Hinsdale
Historical Society - Hinsdale, Illinois
Highland Park Historical Society
- Highland Park, Illinois
The Quincy Museum - Quincy,
IL
Provident Foundation - Chicago,
Illinois
The original Billy Goat Tavern
location was "born" in 1934 when Greek immigrant, William "Billy Goat"
Sianis, purchased the Lincoln Tavern. Near Tribune Towers and Wrigley
Building 430 N. Michigan Ave at Lower Level, Chicago
Aurora
Historical Society - Aurora, Illinois -

Volo
Antique Auto Museum - 27582 Volo Village Rd, Volo, IL
Wheels
O' Time Museum - 11923 North Knoxville, Peoria, IL
Glessner House Museum - 1800
S Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL - c1885
Charnley-Persky House
- 1365 North Astor St. Chicago, IL - c.1892
Museum of Funeral Customs
- 1440 Monument Avenue, Springfield, Illinois - provides the public with
a deeper understanding of the history of American funeral and mourning
customs, funerary art and practice
Dearborn Station - 47 West
Polk St, Chicago, IL - c, 1885, with a 12 story Romanesque clock tower
Dana-Thomas House - 300 East
Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, Illinois - C. 1904 Frank Lloyd Wright
Mitchell Museum of the American
Indian - 2600 Central Park Ave, Evanston, Illinois - exhibits the
history, culture and arts of North American native peoples.
Midway Village & Museum Center
- 6799 Guilford Rd, Rockford, Illinois - The picturesque turn-of-the-century
Victorian village features twenty-six historic structures and heritage
gardens.
Anderson Gardens - 318 Spring
Creek Rd, Rockford, IL - Japanese garden, guest house and tea house
Villa Katherine - 418 Washington St, Quincy, Illinois - Moorish Castle
on the bluffs of the Mississippi River
The
Dixie Truckers Home
is almost as old as Route 66 itself.
Hemingway Museum - 339 N. Oak
Park Ave., Oak Park, I
Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum
-1011 Pacesetter Drive, Rantoul, Illinois - Air Force museum
Polish Museum of America - 984 N.
Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Illinois - founded in 1935, is one of the oldest
and largest ethnic museums in the USA
Cantigny - 151
Winfield Road, Wheaton, IL - There are 500 acres of gardens, picnic groves,
hiking paths, as well as 2 museums
Robie House
- 5757 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois - a Frank Lloyd Wright building
The Palmer House is a classic Beaux-Arts style hotel. The hotel was originally
built in 1871
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