Tag Archives: Illinois

A Winter Prairie

Winter in the Midwest. The travel magazines always fail to tell you that the prairies can be as beautiful as the mountains. Continue reading

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STL-BRU-HAM-LIM-WAW

St. Louis to Brussels to Hamburg to Lima to Warsaw … on a plane … takes a long time. Continue reading

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World Travel in Western Illinois

A Western Illinois trip down the Mississippi River Road takes me to exotic locales: Brussels, Warsaw, and Lima. Continue reading

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Brookfield Zoo Tax

Travel expert Matthew Stone discusses how a 25-cent tax on zoo visitors at the Brookfield Zoo is an indicator of new tourist taxes on the horizon in 2011. Continue reading

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