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Elizabeth
You’ll find wonderful and cosy bed and breakfast in Illinois North nearby town of Elizabeth providing historic sites and museums where you can soak up the history of the reconstructed fort erected in 1832 and the Black Hawk War. Original log cabins from the early frontier can still be viewed today. Mingle with living history as volunteers recreate the historic fort life. Lincoln first stepped foot in this picturesque north western town in 1832 as a soldier during the Black Hawk War and returned 24 years later to campaign for the then Republican Presidential hopeful John Fremont, however, you too can enjoy the charming and fun loving communities by staying in splendid bed and breakfast in Illinois North.
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Galena
Year-round fun and frolic awaits you at the historic town of Galena, the second largest tourist attraction in Illinois, here you can experience a bygone era where steam-boating and lead mining once ruled the day, you can also marvel at the 19th century architecture. If you want excitement, then hurtling down a mountain in a wheeled sled as a toboggan-like track carries you 2,500 feet up from a bluff down to the Mighty Mississippi might well be what you are looking for!
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Rockford
Rockford has a famous resident is 65 million year old Jane, who now lives in the Burpee Museum of Natural History. She was found in the Badlands of Montana and is one of the most significant dinosaur finds in the history of palaeontology where you can admire and watch the research as it happens through the huge glass windows! Or maybe you'd rather join the NASCAR racing buffs on a quarter-mile, high-banked ridge, it will sure get your adrenalin going, or you may want to cheer on the championship water ski team, on the other hand maybe you’d like zooming down one of the slides at the nation's second-largest adventure water park, it never fails to stir the blood! Here you’ll find sports for all ages, a favorite is the miniature golf on the ground-shaking Volcano Course under the shadow of a 3-storey high “erupting volcano”, for extra thrills why not test your sports skills such as soccer in batting cages or enjoy high tec "combat" with your friends in the Laser Zone, a few other interesting nearby towns are, Kankakee, Oregan, Tiskilwa, Wenona and Utica.
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