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Illinois Curiosities
Illinois Curiosities
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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Prairie State has to offer!
Whether you’re a born-and-raised Illinoisan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Illinois Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Richard Moreno takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of Illinois.
Whether you’re a born-and-raised Illinoisan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Illinois Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Richard Moreno takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of Illinois.
- Take a date to the World’s Largest Laundromat, a 13,500-square-foot facility in Berwyn with 153 washers and 148 dryers in nearly constant use.
- Enter Chicago’s “sub” culture with a museum visit to the U-505, the only German submarine in the United States.
- Visit the site in Carthage where Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith was murdered on June 27, 1844.
- Learn about the strange case of H. H. Holmes’ notorious Murder Castle and the sad tale of Burr Oak Cemetery.
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