15 Best Things to Do in Alton (IL)
Three mighty rivers meet near this historic town on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, about 20 miles north of downtown St. Louis. There are some fascinating characters in Alton’s …
15 Best Things to Do in Kankakee (IL)
Sixty miles south of Chicago, Kankakee is a county seat and the main city in the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley metropolitan area. Home to around 28,000, the city is on the sparkling river …
15 Best Things to Do in Niles (IL)
First settled by Europeans in 1832, this North Shore community straddles the North Branch of the Chicago River. That watercourse flows through a string of Cook County forest preserves, and …
15 Best Things to Do in Granite City (IL)
On the Illinois bank of the Mississippi, Granite City is part of Greater St. Louis, and sits a short distance from The Gateway City’s most famous attractions. The city was …
15 Best Things to Do in Elk Grove Village (IL)
In the Northwest Suburbs, Elk Grove Village is a community of 35,000 along the prosperous Golden Corridor where several Fortune 500 companies are headquartered. The name of the village comes …
15 Best Things to Do in Danville (IL)
The seat of Vermilion County, next to the Illinois–Indiana state line, is a city that was powered by the coal industry for a century until WWII. In the mid-19th century …
15 Best Things to Do in St. Charles (IL)
Dubbed the “Pride of the Fox”, St. Charles is a city on the Fox River, 35 miles west of downtown Chicago. After the Chicago Great Western Railway arrived in the …
15 Best Things to Do in Woodridge (IL)
This village in the western Chicago suburbs sprouted up in the 1960s and grew quickly through the 70s and 80s. The name, Woodridge, comes from a wooded ridge on the …
15 Best Things to Do in Galesburg (IL)
The history of this small town in west central Illinois is completely intertwined with the railroads. In the last decades of the 19th century Galesburg became a junction for the …
15 Best Things to Do in Mundelein (IL)
This community in Chicago’s northern suburbs has changed its name a few times since the first European inhabitants arrived in the early 19th century. The current name comes from the …