Chicago has dressed for the holidays
National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows Light Display
October 23, 2011 By 3 Comments
Hotel packages and meal coupons are on the website. There is so much for families to enjoy, you’ll wish you could stay longer.
National Shrine hosts Ladies Day Out and Pet Walk
October 18, 2011 By 2 Comments
National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows hosts Ladies Day Out shopping, luncheon and wine tasting and Tails, Trails Twinkles pet walk.
Eckert’s Country Store and Farms
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Drive to Illinois apple country, just minutes away from St. Louis Missouri. Eckert’s began as a simple roadside stand in 1910. Today, the seventh generation of the Eckert family oversees retail, pick-your-own crops, and entertainment operations at locations in Belleville, Millstadt, and Grafton, Illinois. It’s apple and pumpkin picking time at all three farms Enjoy… Read More
An Illinois town where color is only half the reason to go
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Commanding the top northwest corner of Illinois, Galena is a historic town with delicious reasons to visit. oads wind through vast fields of corn under a 360 degree sky until you reach the roller coaster hills of the northwestern most corner of Illinois. Then, from the top of each ridge a panorama of purple-hued trees, farmsteads and forests spread across the horizon.
Elysian Hotel in Chicago named best hotel in U.S. by Conde Nast Traveler
October 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
Conde Nast Traveler magazine has named Chicago’s Elysian Hotel the best hotel in the U.S. in its Readers Choice awards for 2011.
