Things I love about Illinois

[auggie22]

Illinois is one of my favorite states for the following reasons:

1. Chicago - a world class American city, great food, architecture and people
2. Deep dish - not an everyday pizza, but damn good on occasion
3. John Hughes - did he ever make a bad movie?
4. Al Capones steak house - one of the greatest, weird nights of my life was driving out in the middle of nowhere to eat a mediocre steak dinner at a house Capone once used as a bootleg base
5. Halloween - Best horror movie ever, set in the fictional(?) town of Haddonfield, scared the bejesus out of me as a kid and I think Halloween 2 was probably scarier
6. 2nd City comedy - spent many late nights that started at the birthplace of SNL
7. I love “the Illini” as a nickname

Thinking this honesty will be good for the mojo.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Deep dish - not an everyday pizza, but damn good on occasion

 

[JAdams4Reel]

i was at an illinois game and they love saying ILL- INI and i thought that was cool and funny

 

[bazz&boujee]

Birthplace of Abe Lincoln and Kanye West

 

[Vowelguy]

8. Offered little resistance the year UConn won its 6th MBB title.

 

[GlastonTim]

Doomed

 

[Umami Zen]

No love for the Boat Show??

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Birthplace of Abe Lincoln and Kanye West

Don’t wanna burst your bubble, and Inlove early Kanye, but he was born in Atlanta.

 

[bdbdbdbd]

Birthplace of Abe Lincoln and Kanye West

Not to mention Jack Benny.

 

[John]

Henry Blake was an Illinois guy.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Legal bud

 

[Kembafan]

Don’t wanna burst your bubble, and Inlove early Kanye, but he was born in Atlanta.

And Abe in Kentucky lol

 

[August_West]

No love for the Boat Show??

Yes. But then if you dig deeper it was association with the state of Illinois on why in his freshman season he was ineligible on 2 separate occasions. I blame Illinois on our 2012 shortfall

 

[superjohn]

The crime and the corrupt machine.

 

[Stinger92860]

Curse of the billy goat

 

[storrsroars]

Bill Murray is from Illinois. What does that do for mojo?

 

[brihman]

Jerry Springer

 

[UCTitleTown]

 

[Chin Diesel]

Jake and Ellwood.

 

[Dove]

Jake and Ellwood.

Like the Huskies, they're on a Mission from God.

 

[bazz&boujee]

Don’t wanna burst your bubble, and Inlove early Kanye, but he was born in Atlanta.

And Abe in Kentucky lol

Don’t let facts… Good story… C’mon

 

[TGW93]

That’s a lot of tidbits…

 

[milards]

i was at an illinois game and they love saying ILL- INI and i thought that was cool and funny

I was in 318 last night, which ended up being the heart of the Illinois section for their game. I kept hearing this chant…took me a while to figure out what they were saying. I will say they were a loud bunch.

 

[uconn1999]

24 or 6 to 4

 

[caw]

ehem