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Illinois Vacations  -  Midwest USA.

Illinois is a U.S. state located in the Midwest region of the United States.

Regions in Illinois : Champaign-Urbana, Chicagoland, Driftless Zone, Fox Valley, Little Egypt, Metro-East, American Bottom, Quad Cities.

Cities in Illinois : Alton, Aurora, Belleville, Berwyn, Bloomington, Burbank, Calumet City, Champaign, Chicago, Crystal Lake, Decatur, DeKalb, Des Plaines, Elgin, Elmhurst, Evanston, Joliet, Kankakee, Moline, Naperville, Park Ridge, Peoria, Quincy, Rockford, Rock Island, Springfield, St. Charles, Urbana, Wheaton, Waukegan

State Capital of Illinois : Springfield


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Camping & Campgrounds

 Go Camping America
 Koa  -  Campgrounds of America
 National Park Service Campground and Tour Reservation Site
 Funroads  -  Get Outta Town!
At Funroads.com, you'll find everything you need to organize your next RV trip, so you can relax and enjoy the process. In Get Outta Town, we can help you: Plan your trip and count the days until you depart, Get a map and driving directions, Check on the weather forecast, Find easy-to-make recipes for meals and snacks en route.

Car Rental Illinois

 Alamo - Luxury Discount Auto Rental Company
 Avis
 Budget Rent A Car
 Dollar Rent A Car

Hostels

 Hostelbookers.com  -  Great Hostels, Free booking, Fast & Easy to use
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.
 IYHF  -  International Youth Hostel Federation

Hotels in Illinois

 Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association
Make reservations at hotel accommodations throughout Chicagoland and Illinois.

 HotelCentraUSA
Search and compare rates at USA hotels. They offer hotels ideal for business and leisure travel. You're sure to find an ideal hotel room to match your budget and desired comfort level. 
 USA Lodging
With a list of over 60,000 accommodations establishments, this directory is an impressive list of motels and hotels on the web. Use the search tool to find what you're looking for in seconds, or navigate to your destination city from the list of states.
 Hotels.com

National Parks

 National Park Service  -  National Parks in the USA
The NPS works with communities to preserve and care for neighborhood treasures. They also work with teachers to create unique opportunities for students to learn about history at the real places where events unfolded.

Tour Operators / Travel Agents /




 Enjoy Illinois  -  Illinois Bureau of Tourism Official Website
 Springfield  -  Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau
Come discover the best of the Midwest in Springfield, Illinois. Centrally located along the Sangamon River, Springfield has the dynamic energy of a prospering city, full of adventure, history and fun!

 Chicago Neighborhood Tours
Choose from over 20 different tours showcasing unique Chicago neighborhoods.

Travel Guides Illinois / Related books

Books about Illinois

Illinois Atlas and Gazetteer 
Product Description : The first choice of outdoors enthusiasts. Beautiful, detailed, large-format maps of every state. Perfect for home and office reference, and a must for all your vehicles. Gazetteer information may include: campgrounds, attractions, historic sites & museums, recreation areas, trails, freshwater fishing site & boat launches, canoe trips or scenic drives.
Paperback: 96 pages; Publisher: Delorme Mapping Company; 5th edition (July 1, 2006); Language: English; ISBN-10: 0899333214; ISBN-13: 978-0899333212

Transportation / How do I travel to Illinois

 Springfield Capital Airport  -  Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport
 Chicago Airport  -  O'Hare International Airport [ ORD ]  -  see Fly Chicago 
One of the busiest airports in the world, serving numerous domestic and international destinations. It is a hub for United Airlines and American Airlines.
 Midway International Airport [ MDW ] -  see Fly Chicago
 Chicago-Gary Airport  -  see Fly Chicago
 Belleville  -  MidAmerica St. Louis Airport [ BLV ] 
 Bloomington  -  Central Illinois Regional Airport [ BMI ] 
 Decatur Airport [ DEC ]
 Greater Kankakee Airport [ IKK ] 
 Rockford Airport [ RFD ]  -  Greater Rockford Airport
 Moline  -  Quad City International Airport [ MLI ]
 Peoria Airport [ PIA ]  -  Greater Peoria Regional Airport 

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  flights to Illinois

 Amtrak  -  American Railways
Chicago is Amtrak's Midwestern hub, and travelers can visit the region from across the country on both short and long-distance routes. Plan your trip, search special fares and more on this site.

 Greyhound Lines 
Greyhound Lines offers convenient, affordable service to and from Chicago and is an easy alternative to driving. Their website includes travel planning, fares, ticket purchasing and more.

 Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District [ MTD ]
 Regional Transportation Authority  -  RTA - Public transportation in Northern Illinois
Information on the Chicago Transit Authority [ Chicago train and bus system ], Metra [ the Chicagoland regional train system ] and Pace [ the Chicagoland regional bus system ]. Use RTA to navigate in the city and in its surrounding communities!

 Maps of Illinois [ Uni Texas  -  Perry-Castañeda Library  -  Map Collection ]
 Mapblast! Driving Directions  -  streetmaps etc.
Provides interactive maps and driving directions, as well as extensive information on services and products near a user's address or travel route.
 Mc Nally  -  Route Planner Illinois / USA
 Multimap.com


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 Travel Insurance 

 Enjoy Illinois  -  Illinois Bureau of Tourism Official Website
Take your time and browse around. You'll discover rich history, spectacular shopping, amazing cultural sites, family fun and outdoor adventures that will inspire your own ideal 3-Day Magnificent Getaway.

 State of Illinois website

 City of Springfield [ Government ]  -  State Capital of Illinois

 Springfield  -  Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau
Come discover the best of the Midwest in Springfield, Illinois. Centrally located along the Sangamon River, Springfield has the dynamic energy of a prospering city, full of adventure, history and fun!

 Central Illinois  -  Visit Central Illinois
Springfield, Champaign-Urbana, Route 66
 Northern Illinois  -  Visit Northern Illinois
Rockford, Galena, DeKalb
 Southern Illinois  -  Adventure Illinois
Carbondale, Metropolis, Wineries
 Southwest Illinois  -  Enjoy Southwest Illinois 
Collinsville, Alton, Belleville, Lewis & Clark
 Western Illinois  -  Visit Western Illinois
Peoria, Quad Cities, Nauvoo

 Champaign-Urbana  -  see Visit Champaign County
Whether you're here on a weekend getaway, business convention, or just visiting, Champaign County has plenty of things to do and see. Relax and get back to nature by exploring the Anita purves Nature Center. Nature lovers will also enjoy the beautiful and diverse prairie flora at The Arboretum and the Mabery Gelvin Botanical Garden. Sports fans will want to visit The Olympic Tribute, a monument honoring the achievements of Olympic athletes from our county. And for a different sport visit the Homer 500, the areas first drag strip for snowmobiles and ATV's. And don't forget the kids. You can pick apples and pumpkins at Curtis Orchard, feed the barnyard animals at Prairie Farm, try your luck with the 7-acre Cornfusion maze at Hardy's Evergreen Acres and Reindeer Ranch, or learn about the stars and planets at The William M. Staerkel Planetarium, the 2nd largest in Illinois.
 Chicagoland  -  see Chicagoland Travel
Aurora - Chicago - Chicago's North Shore - Chicago's North Suburbs - Chicago Southland
DuPage County - Elgin - Greater Woodfield - Heitage Corridor/Joliet - Kankakee County
Lake County - Lisle - Oak Park - Rosemont - St. Charles
 Driftless Zone
Area in extreme northwestern Illinois, which was by-passed by the last continental glaciers. See U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Great Lakes-Big Rivers Region.
 Fox Valley  -  a region within Illinois and Wisconsin that borders Chicagoland
Major cities : Aurora, Batavia, Oswego, St. Charles, Geneva, McHenry, Algonquin, Carpentersville, Elgin.
 Little Egypt  -  southern area
The region is sometimes called simply "Egypt." The southernmost part of Little Egypt is Cairo. The southern part of Illinois is geographically, culturally, and economically different from the rest of the state. See Why Little Egypt?
 Metro-East  -  a region that comprises the eastern suburbs of St. Louis
It encompasses eleven Illinois counties [ Bond County, Calhoun County, Clinton County, Greene County, Jersey County, Macoupin County, Madison County, Monroe County, Randolph County, St. Clair County and Washington County ]. The area's largest city is Belleville.
 American Bottom
The American Bottom is a flood plain of the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois, extending from Alton, Illinois, to the Kaskaskia River. It is also sometimes referred to in the plural as "American Bottoms".
Portions of St. Clair, Madison, Monroe, and Randolph Counties are in American Bottom. Its maximum width is about 9 miles, to the north, and is about 2-3 miles in width throughout most of its southern extent. See River Web
 Quad Cities  -  Visit Quad Cities
A group of cities which flank the Mississippi River in Iowa and Illinois. The two largest cities in Illinois are: Molin and Rock Island.

 Alton  -  Alton
 Aurora  -  Aurora 
 Belleville - Belleville 
 Berwyn - Berwyn 
 Bloomington - Bloomington 
 Burbank - City of Burbank
 Calumet City - Calumet City
 Champaign - Champaign 
 Chicago - Chicago Traveler
Chicago Traveler is the perfect travel guide for the first-time or frequent visitor, offering information and links to help out-of-towners and locals alike plan a great visit to our wonderful city. It has travel attractions pages, hotel pages, tour information, maps and lists of useful links to other great Chicago travel resource sites for either business or vacation travel purposes.
 Chicago - City of Chicago
 Crystal Lake - Crystal Lake
 Decatur - Decatur
 DeKalb - De Kalb
 Des Plaines - Des Plaines
 Elgin - Elgin 
 Elmhurst - Elmhurst
 Evanston - Evanston
 Joliet - Joliet
 Kankakee - Kankakee
 Moline - Moline
 Naperville - Naperville
 Park Ridge - Park Ridge
 Peoria - Peoria
 Quincy - Quincy
 Rockford - Rockford
 Rock Island - Rock Island 
 Springfield - Springfield 
 St. Charles - St Charles - Visit St. Charles
Nestled in the scenic Fox River Valley and just one hour west of Chicago, St. Charles, Illinois offers "The Perfect Getaway" for family fun, a romantic escape, business meetings or mega-conventions.
 Urbana - Urbana 
 Waukegan - Waukegan
 Wheaton - Wheaton

 Magazine  -  Lake Magazine  -  Resort Lifestyle on Lake Michigan
 News  -  Chicago Sun-Times
 News  -  Chicago Tribune
 News  -  The News Gazette  -  News in East Central Illinois
 News  -  The Southern Illinoisan
 News  -  Illinois Press Association  -  see newspapers Illinois online
 Radio  -  WSIU Public Broadcasting
 TV  -  WSIU Public Broadcasting
 University - Southern Illinois University Carbondale
 University Illinois - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Cuisine - Illinois Foods / Recipes

 Illinois Department of Agriculture  -  see 'Marketing & Promotions / Heartland Cookbook'
The Bureau of Marketing and Promotion's Grown from the Heart in the Heartland Cookbook represents a collection of recipes highlighting Illinois food products.
 Illinois Picnic Menu [ from Alan's Kitchen ]
 Best of the Best from Illinois: Selected Recipes from Illinois' Favorite Cookbooks
by Gwen Mckee; ISBN: 0937552585
 IllinoisWine.org
 Culinary Historians of Chicago
Educational organization committed to the study of the history of food and drink in human cultures.

 Cuisine of the Midwestern United States

History of Illinois

 History of Illinois [ Wikipedia ]
Pre-Columbian, European exploration, The 1800s, The Civil War and Twentieth century
 Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Located just eight miles from downtown St. Louis at:30 Ramey Street, Collinsville, IL 62234

 National Park Service - Links to the past
Explore America's cultural resources - buildings, landscapes, archeological sites, ethnographic resources, objects and documents, structures and districts.
 Links to the past  -  National Park Service Cultural Resources

Music, Art & Culture, Events & Entertainment

 People & Culture of_Illinois [ Wikipedia ]
 Light Nights on the Magnificent Mile, Chicago
Themed music accompanies a glittering fireworks display over the Chicago River every Saturday evening during this two-month event.

 East Peoria Festival of Lights, East Peoria  -  see City of East Peoria
The Festival of Lights is one of the largest lighted nighttime festivals in the nation. The Festival's mascot is the wooden soldier Folepi, whose name serves as an acronym for "Festival of Lights, East Peoria, Illinois."
 St. Charles Scarecrow Festival, St. Charles
Each year, 100+ hand-crafted scarecrows gather in historic St. Charles, Illinois, just one hour west of Chicago, during the Original Illinois Scarecrow Festival in October.
Enjoy free, live entertainment, great food, numerous free and interactive children's events, the famous Autumn on the Fox Art & Craft Show and so much more at this NON-alcohol, family fun festival!

 Ticketmaster.com - Concerts, Sports, Theater

Web Portal / Illinois Search Engines / Directories

 Illinois Clicks 
Illinois Clicks is an information website with quality internet resources, reviewed and selected by Illinois librarians, well-organized for easy access by all Illinois citizens.

 American Discovery Trail
The American Discovery Trail (ADT) is a new breed of national trail — part city, part small town, part forest, part mountains, part desert — all in one trail. Its 6,800+ miles of continuous, multi-use trail stretches from Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware, to Pt. Reyes National Seashore, California. It reaches across America, linking community to community in the first coast to coast, non-motorized trail. The ADT provides trail users the opportunity to journey into the heart of all that is uniquely American — its culture, heritage, landscape and spirit.
 Online Highways  -  destination guides
 Roadside America  -  online guide to offbeat tourist attractions
 Theme Parks USA
Directory of Theme Parks, Amusement Parks, Waterparks & Zoos


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