Trivia about Illinois

You know you're in Illinois when... : 101 quintessential places, people, events, customs, lingo, and eats of the Prairie State, by Pam Henderson (TPB, 2006, $2)

Want to know cool stuff about Illinois?

Illinois is where:
there is a 170 foot catsup bottle shaped water tower (Collinsville),
and the oldest two-story outhouse (Gays).

It is also where:
the 4-H was started,
the chemical formula for Lava Lights was invented, and is still kept safe,
MacDonald's was born (Des Plaines),
the Virgin Mary sometimes appears (Belleville),
a road is closed twice a year so that snakes, frogs and turtles can get safely across (Cairo),
and the sundae was invented (Evanston).

Read all this and more! Look for this book on the new non-fiction table, avail. 5/27.   (L-Am.h.)