Attractions

Tune in to see actor Jeff Daniels as a Buckless Yooper. In addition, learn about a professional baseball team’s mascot called Mr. Celery, and the Museum of Funeral Customs that has one focus — death.

Business

Ever drink an okra martini or lather up with a luxury soap named after the lowly boll weevil? Need live crickets – fast? Click here to find out more about these and other businesses that offer unusual products and services!

Dining

Pass the napkins, please. You can get a fried double bologna burger, or try a pig sandwich, green chili slopper or coffee potato ice cream. Wash everything down with a white birch beer from the Hall of Foam.

Oddities

Time out: A Division I college football game actually had a final score of 222-0. Also, somebody had to invent Mother’s Day, and a city called Skullbone got its name from hosting bare-knuckle boxing matches.

Festivals

What’s that smell? Be sure to attend a celebration that features outhouse races, then bring a breath mint to the annual Garlic Festival. In addition, applaud the lucky and deserving winner of the Slug Queen Pageant.
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Used to Be Sherb's
All you can eat for 10 cents.

That was the sign appearing in the window of Sherb’s, a small ice cream shop that opened Aug. 4, 1938, on South West Avenue in Kankakee, Ill. This opening-day ice cream offer was especially incredible because it occurred in the days of the Great Depression.

Store owner Dick “Sherb” Noble provided his semi-frozen, soft-serve dairy product for 1,600 customers during the first day of business, and his idea would evolve into a multi-million dollar company. He eventually changed the name of his store to Dairy Queen, and today there are more than 5,000 Dairy Queen stores in the United States, Canada and 14 other countries.
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