A rare #daughterpost to cleanse your timeline

Sharing my photo of the most interesting shoe repair window I've seen (in Lake Zurich) to promote my cemetery talk at the library there tonight. Please come!!

Such a great honor to be on @wbez.org’s Say More this morning talkin Cemeteries. Surreal to see these disembodied voices I’ve heard for so long in person. If for some reason you weren’t listening, go to their website and check it out! I am on 40 min in but the whole ep is fun

A fellow traveler who got in touch with me after my @21st.show segment shared this song about his Illinois adventures. Please connect to your loudest speakers and press play. If you are on transit or at the library, disconnect your headphones first. youtu.be/CvU3eY_O9V8

In case you missed my thread of this stunning midcentury church in Beverly, see pics below!

Jewish Waldheim

Canyons of Forest Park

Very nice ceiling at @RiverForestPL. See posts below for more shots of this very charming library. Let’s share this one far and wide, doesn’t get much better than this! 1/4

I like you so much I want to put you in here, forever

The Walker branch of the Chicago Public Library

Old timey charmers in Morgan Park

Morgan park mirror selfie

Christ the King in Beverly, just really a standout midcentury church in a very cool little part of the neighborhood. More pics to follow in thread

Walker Branch of @chipublib, also my face if you do not attend my Illinois Cemeteries lecture there tomorrow afternoon. Free and open to all. Check out the great homes along the ridge in Morgan park and Beverly and then see me lecture in all my splendor.

My hotel night stand

The truth is I’ve been in Disney world all week. My deep apologies for leaving Illinois. Did you know the Spaceship Earth attraction was inspired by the work of SIU professor Buckminster Fuller, who patented geodesic domes and published the “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”

ICYMI: We talked on the show with @mrillinois.bsky.social about some of the interesting stops on a tour of cemeteries across Illinois.

Nice red house in Morgan Park. See me nearby at 111th and Hoyne this weekend as I present on our state’s many interesting cemeteries and tombs

Fulton County Courthouse in Lewistown, not far from one of our state’s more famous cemeteries. I had the great honor speaking with @brianmackey.com on @21st.show yesterday about some central Illinois gravesites. Link below!

I will be back at this utterly charming Walker Branch of the Chicago Public Library to talk Illinois Cemeteries and Graves! Plan a little south side outing, we’ll talk Lincoln’s tomb, spoon river, Oak Woods, and more. link below

Posted other pics before, it’s true, but this is one of the great doors of our world. Central elementary school in Riverside, 1897

Hofmann Tower in Lyons

St. Mary’s Rectory, Riverside, IL 1959. A few more pics in posts below

Missed out on another chance to live in this nice little town :(

FF Tomek House in Riverside, Frank Lloyd Wright

The latest issue of my email newsletter is out. Book recs, cemetery musings, and my LAST FOUR lecture dates of 2025 (including tonight's in Hinsdale). Link below this tweet.

Folks u are running out of time to see my “Great Graves of IL” lecture before Halloween. Tomorrow evening see me at Hinsdale Library. Covering big names, scenic boneyards, state trivia, books, and more. We can even chat beforehand. Pictured: Grave of (still living) Sen. Roland Burris

Two friends are in Japan right now and found this at a store called "America Obsessed" - calling @mrillinois.bsky.social

Another section of the world’s largest stained glass installation at Resurrection Cemetery. Here we have an epiphany scene.

Cool retro Riverside house/car(s)

“We are immigrants, not criminals” in Berwyn. ✊

Neighbors in Berwyn

The angel’s flaming sword blocking Adam and Eve from the garden

Moses and Noah, and David playing that secret chord

Great news everyone, my next 10,000 tweets are going to be pictures of the mausoleum at Resurrection Cemetery

Hoping to squeeze in a few minutes of Canal tourism on my way to Homer Glen tonight (giving my cemetery lecture at 6:30 if you are in the area!)

Heading back to Carol Stream tonight if you’re in the area and want to see my Illinois Cemeteries lecture!

TWO Mr. Illinois programs today! Catch me at the Center of Palos Park, a truly beautiful place that serves a good cause, at 12 (lunch)/1 (Central IL lecture), or at Carol Stream Library at 7 (cemeteries lecture).

Hinsdale’s Memorial Hall lit in red and white for homecoming.

Cool Kenilworth homes

Kenilworth Station

Stopped by the Kenilworth home of architect George Washington Maher en route to my lecture tonight.

Three very fitting architects' graves at Graceland Cemetery to celebrate the North Shore debut of my new cemetery talk in Winnetka tonight. Come come come!

Here it is, Showman’s Rest in Forest Park, the final resting place for 56 victims of a 1918 circus train wreck as well as other circus performers. Learn about ALL of the state’s most interesting cemeteries at Winnetka’s Library tomorrow night!

Scenic Havana IL

Here is the Chicago portage, where for thousands of years native Americans traded for copper, obsidian, and shells and crossed between two great continental waterways. (According to the sign right out of frame.) Lots of leaves suddenly on the ground

I will give several lectures on “Great Graves of Illinois” this October at various Chicagoland libraries. I focus more on travel and history (not too much about ghosts). It all starts in Winnetka next week—please come to one and help me spread the word!

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Oh please come see this charming library with me: I'll be there at 7 to talk about Northern Illinois & Driftless Wisconsin roadtrips. Oh please come talk with me! Register below.