That sucks about Monari's, kissrules. Thanks for the info.

I came down here from the southwest suburbs when CF closed most of its operations in Aurora years ago.

Then, couple years later, they moved everything back up to to the city by Midway.

We stayed down here with intentions of getting back closer to the city some day.

Illinois Valley is a good place to raise kids. Then, push them out of the nest for more opportunity and culture in Chicagoland.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Oddly enough, before there was San Pedro de Macoris there was central Illinois, home to Hall of Famers, Sunny Jim Bottomley, Red Ruffing, and Ray Schalk. There used to be a little place called the B-R-S Museum in Nokomis that had a bunch of memorabilia from those guys. I don't know if it's still there or not.

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Freedom is our Strength.

Lanuti's in Ladd currently closed and up for sale.

Anybody got deep pockets to keep this legendary place afloat?

I can help you out with the food menu & old school Italian recipes.

http://m.pjstar.com/article/20150502/NE ... /1994/NEWS

http://newstrib.com/main.asp?SectionID= ... leID=43470

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Dude, you're right in my wheelhouse. Spent my first 22 years right near there.

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Lanuti's in Ladd just dropped the $229k asking price down to $140k.

I hear the owner wants out bad...

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Ahh yes. Good times indeed. We got served in Rip's too circa '87-'88.

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I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. - Bill Hicks

Let's do it for Johnny!

So...outside of the any places to eat...am I just going hiking when I go there??

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Raft on the vermillion.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Doc's probably got that in his couch cushions.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

You can go to The Spa in Peru for a rub down after your strenuous day of hiking, biggie.

Probably not as exciting as Chinatown, though...

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Shot some video at the Ottawa Historical and Scouting Museum. The Boy Scouts founder, WD Boyce lived in Ottawa and is buried in Ottawa Avenue Cemetery.

Pretty cool stuff.

Interesting he was from here. For some reason I always thought the founder was Baden Powell and that was that.

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I think moving up to the border with Wisconsin kind of spoils the appeal of Starved Rock when I'm closer to Devils Lake and other spots in Wisconsin but I have good memories there.

My first hit of the weed followed by a cookies and cream Hershey's bar. Those are deathbed memories.

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"Mattress technology has come a long way"

- Dan Bernstein, 2016