My Visit to Anna, Illinois - July 18, 2017
Anna Illinois July 18, 2017 Illinois looms larger today than it usually does, since normally it is merely a pass-through state en-route to a more exciting destination. When I say Illinois, the city of Chicago and the surrounding area are excepted due to the stark geographic, demographic, and cultural differences between the two. If you were to draw a straight line from Apple River to Sheldon, everything to the south and west of that line is what I consider true Illinois, with the exception of Champaign and East St. Louis. The rest is the city state of Chicago, so going forward when I refer to Illinois you’ll know to remove Chicago and the surrounding area normally referred to as Chicagoland, and should actually be called the state of Chicagoland. Illinois therefore is a massive expanse of flat farmland in the northern half and resembles hilly western Kentucky in the south, but in either case there are few notable cities, but today there is ONE notable ci...