Time for a genuine spring break, now that genuine spring has arrived. Back to posted content around May 24 .
Returning from Normal on Sunday, I took another short detour fairly close by, in the wonderfully named town of Towanda , pop. 430 or so, originally a central Illinois project of the busy 19th-century businessman Jesse Fell . I’d seen signs for Towanda on the Interstate for years, but never stopped.
Towanda is the home of a massive grain elevator, owned by Evergreen FS of Bloomington.