In the days before roads crisscrossed the nation, rivers served as one of the best ways to get from one point to another.  And when…

If you play with fire your liable to get burned.  But on Jim Lidle’s farm, fire is what they grow.  It’s fire in the form…

Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War…but it was this man who defeated him for the senate just two years prior.  We’ll go…

Whether you are a student of history or not, we each know something about the Civil War.  However, the next chapter is one few have…

A lot of cities will hold a festival centered around rock – but we’re not talking about rock music.  For it’s a real rock that…

The name of this rock is just as odd as it looks.  Yet it is a rock that puts this place on the map.  We…

One, five, ten, twenty? Those are the denominations of bills we normally see when paying for items. Now imagine that not only were there more…

This famous architect was hired to design one of Chicago’s famous park landscapes.  No sooner did he design it than park employees began mowing down…

You might be a little crazy to jump out of an airplane and fight a fire.  So what does it mean if you’ve done it…

When a forest fire flames up in a remote area, it may be Dan Ryan’s crew that is called in to fight the blaze. This…