Journey virtually into a historic landmark

• Museum
• Tours
• Museums
• Dana Thomas House
• Virtual

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is offering virtual tours of the Dana Thomas House historic site in Springfield. Designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the house is thought to have one of the most intact interiors designed by Wright in the United States. Take a fun and informative journey through a piece of American history.

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Volition Entertainment: Champaign’s hometown video game developer

• Employment
• Champaign
• Video games
• Saints Row

Making video games is a popular hobby, and it provides artists a chance to showcase their incredible talent. Champaign plays host to Volition Entertainment, formerly known as Parallax Software. The company has been around since the early ‘90s and is a source of pride in Champaign. It employs roughly 200 people and is still going strong.

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Chicagoans; roll out!

• Chicago
• Transformers
• Moon
• Dark of the Moon

Transformers is a long running franchise dating back to the 1980s. But, did you know that many parts of the 2011 film “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” were filmed in Chicago?

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Did you know? The “Giant of Illinois” was born today in 1918

• Did you know?
• Alton
• World's Tallest Man

On this day in 1918, Robert Pershing Wadlow, who would go on to become the world’s tallest man, was born to Harold and Addie Wadlow. He was the oldest of five children and was born an average size.

By age five, however, he had grown to 5 feet 4 inches, and by age eight he was almost 6 feet tall. By the time he was 17, he was over 8 feet tall.

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