Starting Friday, it’s a ROAD TRIP WEEKEND on 94.7 WLS! Looking to get out? Hit the open road? Feel the wind in your hair? Us too. Here are some nearby (ish) road trip destinations:
ILLINOIS
Hudson, Illinois
World’s largest square-knot
Granite City, Illinois
Giant clown head
Giant 10-person swing
Schaumburg, Illinois
Half-buried giant woman
Volo, Illinois
Bonnie and Clyde’s death car (Volo Auto museum)
Kankakee, Illinois
#1 Dairy Queen franchise
Good fishing and mushroom hunting
Peoria, Illinois
Rooster in a top hat
Springfield, Illinois
Cozy Dog Drive In – Invention place of “hot dog on a stick”
Geneva, Illinois
Replica viking ship from the Chicago World’s Fair
Lincoln, Illinois
Worlds largest covered wagon
Morris, Illinois
R-Place Truck Stop – Try and eat the 4-pound Ethyl burger and get your photo on the wall
Starved Rock State Park, Illinois
Great waterfalls.
Braidwood, Illinois
Polka Dot Drive-In
9-foot-tall Elvis Statue
Galena, Illinois
Main Street is charming and old-timey
Rockford, Illinois
Cheap Trick and the Sock Monkey Museum
Oglesby or Utica, Illinois
Starved Rock State Park and Matthiessen State Park
Eat at the Rootb eer Stand — a classic diner, floats and burgers!
Oak Park, Illinois
For the Frank Lloyd Wright fanatics
INDIANA
Indiana Dunes
Take the “Three Dune” challenge
Wine tasting nearby.
South Bend, Indiana
Fighting Irish football HQ
South Bend Farmers’ Market
MICHIGAN
Holland, Mi
Jet on a Stick
A real Dutch windmill
Warren Sand Dunes
South Haven, MI
Blue Moon Ice Cream in South Haven
Sandy beach, lots of wineries; and of course, a lighthouse
Michiana, Mi
Sandy beaches, wineries, antique-ing
Saugatuck, MI
The Human-powered ferry
Harbor town antics
Saugatuck Dunes State Park
Hike to the Mount Baldhead Park
Kalamazoo, MI
It’s fun to say “Kalamazoo!”
Pick expensive apples
WISCONSIN
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Great sunset, Golfing, Big Foot Beach State Park
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Pabst Blue Ribbon
The Harley-Davidson Museum
New Glarus, Wisconsin
It’s like Switzerland!
New Glarus Beer
Madison, Wisconsin
Get the cheesebread @ Farmer’s Market by the Capitol
Monroe, Wisconsin
Swiss Cheese Capital of the USA
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Kids love those big waterparks
Spring Green, WI
Frank Lloyd Wright summer home — Taliesin
