Woodstock, Illinois
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Aside from being an awfully cute town that is just a quick $6.00 Metra ride from Chicago, Woodstock is famous for a couple of things:
- The home of Chester Gould, who created the Dick Tracy comic strip (which I never read, I must confess. I would read a hundred Family Circus' before I read one Dick Tracy.)
- The town where the film Groundhog Day was filmed (which I have seen a bazillion times). Yes, the town still looks like it does in the movie.
It's a pretty little town. It was named as a Distinctive Destination by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and an Associate Illinois Main Street Community.
And, hey....it's Groundhog Day soon! Time for dragging Woodstock Willie out of his hole and getting the party started! Because the party lasts for a whole week in Woodstock. Better hurry though, the Lighting of the Groundhog is tomorrow night. Wouldn't want to miss it!
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I love Woodstock, but I *really* love "Groundhog Day." We have many kids-in-the-gazebo photos from childhood jaunts up there. Did you hear the "Pennsylvania Polka" music in your ears? Thanks for a beautiful peek at the town, Jeannie.
Posted by: Marilyn | January 30, 2008 9:54 AM
Heh. That reminds me...a couple months after we moved to Chicago, we spent a few days in Woodstock in February of 1992, right before the movie was about to be filmed, and the town was especially spruced up to be all Main St. USA. Having grown up in the rust belt area of Pennsylvania, where the film was actually supposed to be set, Dr. TM and I had a good laugh. The real Punxsutawney was probably just too depressed and grim for Hollywood standards...though they sure could have used all the Hollywood cash that went into already-photogenic Woodstock. We enjoyed the movie when it came out, though, and I'm glad it was filmed in a real town *somewhere* in flyover country instead of on a back lot set in LA.
It snowed hard--we'd gone up into Wisconsin to visit Kettle Moraine National Park and do some hiking, and cars were sliding off the road all the way back down I-94.
Posted by: tully monster | January 30, 2008 10:55 AM
Heh. That reminds me...a couple months after we moved to Chicago, we spent a few days in Woodstock in February of 1992, right before the movie was about to be filmed, and the town was especially spruced up to be all Main St. USA. Having grown up in the rust belt area of Pennsylvania, where the film was actually supposed to be set, Dr. TM and I had a good laugh. The real Punxsutawney was probably just too depressed and grim for Hollywood standards...though they sure could have used all the Hollywood cash that went into already-photogenic Woodstock. We enjoyed the movie when it came out, though, and I'm glad it was filmed in a real town *somewhere* in flyover country instead of on a back lot set in LA.
It snowed hard--we'd gone up into Wisconsin to visit Kettle Moraine National Park and do some hiking, and cars were sliding off the road all the way back down I-94.
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