In this week's edition of DailySouthtown Landmarks, Paul Eisenberg recounts some of his memorable trips down Interstate 57.
Young Ethan Eisenberg hangs out with Jack Frost the reindeer during an impromptu visit to Hardy's Reindeer Ranch outside of Rantoul in 2013.
Along the way, there has been plenty of terrible fast food and a few surprisingly good pit stop dining experiences. Interstate 57, which starts in the Southland, travels the length of Illinois, traversing a mostly flat landscape until hitting the rolling hills of the Shawnee National Forest at the southern end of the state.
An sign along Interstate 57 notes the exit for the village of Dix in southern Illinois, where a farm stand offers tasty seasonal produce. One landmark we look for is a former private playground erected beside one of the small, triangular lakes that periodically appear every few miles, remnants of dirt extractions for fill needed to make the expressway level when it was created.
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