towns

The Rockford metropolitan area covers a lot of ground in Illinois but what are some other great towns that make up this entire community?

Chicago will forever have a connection to the Mafia but there are plenty of other towns in Illinois that are part of the history too.

It's well past time to hop in your car and experience all the fun that these Illinois places have to offer.

If you love decorating your home and yard with gnomes, you might want to think about moving to Strasburg, Illinois.

The other day, as I was watching my wife carry in a metric ton or two of Halloween candy from the garage, I happened upon an article that was talking about the hard line being drawn on Halloween trick-or-treaters by the city of Roanoke, Virginia.

When you've finally hit that age, have enough saved up and it's time to retire, it could be time to move.

Meet someone from out of state and they'll tell you the entire state of Illinois is made up of people from Chicago.

According to OnlyInYourState, if you can accurately pronounce these Illinois town names--you've lived in Illinois too long. Let's find out.

A year or so back, I posted a piece in this space called "Some Illinois Towns Have Weird Names." Some of the Illinois towns mentioned as being weirdly named were: Goofy Ridge, Oblong, Lowpoint, Muddy, Ransom, and Preemption. Time to make the move from weirdness to lewdness.

With 2015 coming to an end, let's do a a bit of reminiscing and take a look back at the year we had at Q98.5.