What is the most famous site in Illinois?

[Stuart G]

[Stuart G]

1. Chicago River, Lake Front in Chicago

[gopiscrap]

2. Lincoln's boyhood home or the site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?

[hedda_foil]

9. Lincoln's boyhood home was in Kentucky.

https://www.nps.gov/abli/planyourvisit/boyhood-home.htm

[gopiscrap]

10. Lincoln was born in KY he came to IL as a young person

[NBachers]

3. The Fred Hampton/Mark Clark house.

[Stuart G]

6. Strange story about that house...I was teaching at Crane High School at the time.......

and a couple of students asked me if I wanted to go to the house and see where the shooting took place.........
.......ON THE DAY OF THE SHOOTING..........sO ............

........I walked over to the house with the students, and saw the blood on the beds, and bullet holes in the walls.

........This was nation wide news, and I was in that house several hours after the shooting took place. Same day....
a few blocks away from Crane High School.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Either Lincoln's home in Springfield or the Mother Jones

Monument at Mt. Olive.

[2naSalit]

5. Kankakee?

[ProfessorGAC]

21. That's A Hard No!

Kidding! The 3 towns that make up that area are all pretty nice.
I know people who live there, including a handful of musicians.
There are a couple of nice independent music stores there.
But, still no as to the most famous!

[2naSalit]

23. I'm sure!

It just popped into my head, I couldn't help it. It was the place in Illinois where I discovered that Illinois had cactus.

[Stuart G]

7. Museum of Science and Industry..

[WmChris]

18. Yes

That's it for me.

[bahboo]

8. Wrigley Field...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. +1

[HubertHeaver]

11. Stillman's Run, Stillman Valley

[murielm99]

24. I live close to the former Henry School,

that has an historic marker on the grounds. Stillman's Run went just north of me, right through the grounds of that school.

[murielm99]

12. Sears Tower

[ProfessorGAC]

22. That Was My Pick

Or the Hancock.
Though someone above said Wrigley Field, and they might be on to something.

[PortTack]

13. Gosh..that's tough...Shedd aquarium, the Indian mounds in Cahokia, museum of science and industry

Or the field museum of natural history.

[RockRaven]

14. Nationally? Probably Soldier Field.

If fooozzball fans can remember that Chicago is in Illinois, that is.

[snowybirdie]

15. My grandchildren's houses

They are famous to me.

[bluedigger]

16. Cahokia Mounds

[frazzled]

17. Art Institute of Chicago / Millennium Park

Those are the most visited places by international and national visitors, so I guess the most “famous.”

[ChazInAz]

19. Two of my favorites are somewhat lesser known.

New Salem, a reconstruction of the village where Lincoln first lived when he moved to Illinois.
Allerton Park, originally the estate of a timber magnate. Now it's a sprawling outdoor art gallery that I try to revisit every few years. The monumental "Sun Singer" and "Dying Centaur" are spectacular and very different installations.

[live love laugh]

20. Starved Rock?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

26. For international notoriety, maybe the Biograph Theater or the UofC site for the Manhattan Project.

If you're talking about showing people a picture and having them guess what it is, it's probably the Chicago skyline or Wrigley Field.