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Oddball Illinois: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places (Oddball States)
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by Jerome Pohlen
Sales Rank: 405435
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$1.63
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 244 pages
Published by: Chicago Review PressEdition: 1st Edition March 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1556523718
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1556523717
Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Chuck Shepherd, News of the Weird
"This in not your parents' travel book, but in the new millennium, all guides will be written like this."
Salt Lake Tribune
"(Pohlen's) prose makes reading the Oddball guides a delight"
Reader Reviews
Even if you don't live in Illinois or plan to visit, the offbeat humor in this book makes it well worth reading. More than half the book is given over to Chicago and the burbs. For the location of many sites mentioned in the book, you'll see the original structures have been torn down. So while you may go to where the 1st skyscraper was constructed, you won't see it today. The areas outside of Chicago are covered in much less detail. The author has included 3 maps covering northern, central, and southern Illinois to help with locating these more out of the way attractions. The book has a somewhat disturbing bent towards scenes of violence and death. Cemeteries are covered in detail as are sites of various tragedies.
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