Originally posted by Aslyfox 
looks a lot like where I grew up in Le Roy, McLean County Illinois
Yes, exactly, though my county is much more rolling in places, (we have a hundred foot change of elevation on our own tiny 40-acre square!) having the Illinois River valley along one margin, the Spoon River running down through the middle of it, and all of the creeks dividing the land as they cut down to either the Illinois, or the Spoon--not to mention a lot of pock-marked areas and deep ravines left from decades of strip mining coal--but there are places where broad, relatively flat uplands open out to an extent that resembles what you have in McClean County and the east-central part of the state, what was once called "The Grand Prairie," where an early pioneer could walk all day and not see a tree, if he or she could even see over the prairie grass in the first place.
My family used to travel through McLean County two or three times a year, when I was a kid, getting on or off Route 66 at the original white clapboard Dixie Truck Stop, before it burnt and was rebuilt in brick in the mid or late 1960s. I don't have a clear memory of driving through LeRoy, but I probably have been there at some time or another.
Post #23067 by StephenHampshire
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