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The Greater Chicago Southland Road Experience
This is an experience you cannot have anywhere else in the country in one day.
This is far more than just a driving tour. It is a journey down four of America's most historic roads leading to little-known secrets, hidden historical treasures, and unforgettable discoveries.
This is an example of how the tour book is laid out. Multiple appendixes provide additional details, while easy-to-follow turn-by-turn directions and clearly identified points of interest make the tour simple to navigate.
Are you looking for something interesting and fun to do for the day, or someplace to go for a weekend? This could be one of the most memorable, interesting and educational trips you've ever taken.
Two-Books in One.
It includes the Tour Book plus it includes a book style sectioni so you can read about each point of interest and side trip in detail from the comfort of your home..
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Introductory price only $29.95 (Limited Time) - Regular Price $39.95 - over 100 pages (covers just over 100 miles with all side trips).
Offered through Pinnacle Business Strategies
Allow 2 to 5 days for processing.
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The Greater Chicago Southland Road Experience Intro Audio
What you will experience
■ Drive on four historic roads
The Dixie Highway, the Sauk Trail, the Lincoln Higway, and Route 66
■ Over 40 points of interest
From historic buildings to iconic roadside attractions like the Gemini Giant, the Sinclair Dinosaur, and the Polka Dot Drive In, along with vintage neon signs, historic downtowns, unusual landmarks, and hidden roadside treasures, there is something new and unexpected waiting around nearly every turn. ,
■ Stand at the burial site of the first nuclear reactor built in the world
Built during WW2 as part of the Manhattan project and created under the football field stands in a room underground and then buried in a forest preserve.
■ Visit and have lunch or diner at 1920s prohibition era speakeasies
Open to the public for dining and retaining most of their 1920s decor and feel.
■ Search for 100-million-year-old fossils
This is one of the most productive fossil sites in the country open to the public. You are allowed to bring and fill up a 5 gallon bucket
■ Visit a sacred Native America Healing Pond hundred of years old*
The plaque on the large boulder says Hundreds of years ago Native Americans from throughout the Midwest journied to this pond for its healing properties.
■ Visit multiple famous movie filming locations
Everything from Steve McQueen, Dolly Parton, Sandra Bullock, James Wods, Keanna Reeves, Blues Brothers and more.
■ Visit the area where melted glaciers unleashed a ravaging torrent of water through the Southland
More than 10,000 years ago, melting glaciers created a massive body of water far larger than Lake Michigan is today. When the higher ground acting as a natural dam could no longer withstand the pressure, the water broke through with a tremendous, almost unimaginable force, unleashing a massive torrent that carved ravines and valleys through the Southland. Geologists consider this one of only a handful of major land-shaping events of its kind in the country.
■ Visit buildings built before the Civil War and back as far as the battle of the Alamo
You will see an 1836 stage couch stop otel that served as part of the Underground Railroad, with secret tunnels leading from beneath the building to a creek behind it, and visit other buildings from the 1830s where you can step inside, shop, and dine.
■ Visit some of the most haunted locations in the country
You might be amazed tucked away along lold Route 66 are some of the most haunted locations in the country.
■ Visit the largest WW2 TNT production facility in the country
Built in the heart of the country during World War II to help protect it from enemy air attacks from either coast, this massive facility was strategically located along Route 66. You can even tour one of its original bunkers.
■ Visit an old Coal Mining town and museum
At it's peak the town had about 500 people, 21 active mines, 20 bars and 8 houses of prostiituion.
Included is a 36 -page section containing indepth details on the points of interest and side trips written in a book format so you can easily read it at home. There is a section with a list of some of the popular restuarants on the tour, Historical Museums, and maps of trhe downtown areas on larger cities.
Information has been carefully compiled from countless conversations with historical society experts, research companies, and multiple area learning centers to help ensure accuracy.*
Get the Tour Book
Introductory price only $29.95 (Limited Time) - Regular Price $39.95 - over 100 pages (covers just over 100 miles with all side trips).
Offered through Pinnacle Business Strategies
Allow 2 to 5 days for processing.
The just over 100-mile journey circles around the Greater Chicago Southland, ending just a few miles from where it began.
You can start at the beginning or at Point of Interest #3, #4 o #10 and end wherever you want. You can stop along the way to visit attractions, or eat.
You can complete the experience in one day, or spread it out over multiple days.
■ And Much More.......
Get the Tour Book
Introductory price only $29.95 (Limited Time) - Regular Price $39.95 - over 100 pages (covers just over 100 miles with all side trips).
Offered through Pinnacle Business Strategies
Allow 2 to 5 days for processing.
Thousands of Years Ago......
There was water, then there was ice, and powerful forces that would forever shape the Chicago Southland.
Imagine this entire area buried beneath a massive sheet of ice. As the glaciers melted, they left behind an enormous body of water known today as Glacial Lake Chicago, stretching far beyond the present shoreline of Lake Michigan. At its highest stage, geologists estimate the lake stood approximately 60 feet higher than Lake Michigan does today.
Eventually, a natural land barrier near what is now Willow Springs gave way. An almost unimaginable torrent of water burst across the landscape, carving the enormous Des Plaines River Valley. Another breach near Blue Island helped create the Sag Valley.
Geologists have documented only a handful of truly enormous Ice Age flood events in America. What happened here in the Chicago Southland was one of them.
* It is a protected site, you can not actually touch the water. * While the highest degree of research has been performed personally and through historical society experts, misunderstandings and differences of opnions can occur and errors can occur.
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