SCA Day Tripper: Chicago’s North Side
Chicago tourism’s center of gravity is around the Loop. But there are plenty of places farther out that are more like the city as locals live it. Let’s trip out on Chicago’s North Side.
– Bill
JOURNAL SNEAK PEEK: Miss Alma Makes a Bee Line: A Story of One Woman and Two Auto Trails
By John and Kris Murphey – As the first female transcontinental highway booster, Alma Rittenberry had promoted her Jackson Highway not only as a memorial to the former President nicknamed “Old Hickory,” but as a progressive path to get farmers out of the mud and a source of “financial and cultural gain” for the North and South.
JOURNAL SNEAK PEEK: Teal Roofs and Pecan Logs
By Lisa Raflo and Jeffrey Durbin: Though it now mostly follows current corporate trends, Stuckey’s was once a daring innovator whose Pecan Shoppes were the precursors of the convenience store.