Let’s start off with this famed football linebacker, Dick Butkus, in Champaign:

“The Quintessential Engineer” tribute to women engineers is at the University of Illinois in Urbana:

Aphrodite’s head – a former prop at the McPherson Theater in Bloomington now displayed on top of a barrel canopy over the entrance:

This scrap metal elephant is in Lexington:

This stack of books of Aesop’s Fables with a tortoise and a hare is at the Urbana Free Library (in Urbana):

This pumpkin is at Spezia’s Cheese Shop in Danville:

This sculpture is at Tom Kirk’s art display under the bridge in Bloomington:

Bruce Goff’s Garvey House in Urbana:

The Iroquois Federal Bank in Danville:

A castle-like church in Danville from 1903 – now a theatre:

A former Coca-Cola bottling plant in Bloomington:

This theatre is in Hoopeston:

Moving on to some signs. This one is in Lexington:

I’m sure this sign in Danville had neon originally — and probably a different business nam:

Another sign in Danville:

This one is in Paxton:

This sign in in Danville:

These two are both at the Little Nugget in Danville:

This rooftop wind sculpture sign is at Keller’s Iron Skillet restaurant in Bloomington:

This Dairy Queen is in Cissna Park. These “lips” style signs are getting pretty rare:

The Majestic Theatre in Paxton burned down in 2007 but this early bulb sign (1910s or 1920s?) must have been in storage somewhere (it wasn’t on the building) and marks the former site in a park now:

And last but not least, this sign is in Urbana. I can’t think of any other signs with a series of wavy tubing like this:

About 8 more posts from Illinois to come.

Happy Trails,
dj & the dogs

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