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I visited my home town of Itasca, IL in June 2007

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I hope to complete a Travel Blog showing all the pictures of the places my wife Jenny and I have lived and visited since we bought our first computer when we lived in Hawaii in 1998. We've spent most of that time travelling around the globe and I've spent many hours organizing all the digital pictures. Hopefully, TravBuddy will be a way to show off all the places we've expereinced in the world. The picture of us is taken from our balcony on the East China Sea in Nakadomari, Okinawa.

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I visited my home town of Itasca, IL in June 2007

June 1, 2007

While in the Chicago area on business, I visited my home town of Itasca, IL. I had lived there the first 21 years of my life under the flight path for Runway 9R at O'Hare Airport and now I am travelling the rest of the world. Itasca is a small suburb of Chicago and we used to have a farm with Black Angus cows behind our house which is now Goodenough Park. Itasca is probably most famous for the actual location of the

Willy Wonka Candy Factory

1445 Norwood Ave
Itasca, IL 60143
Phone: (630) 773-0267

Sorry--no pictures of this place yet. I attended St. Luke Lutheran Church and School which celebrated 100 years in Itasca in 2007.

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mjchristensen says:

Oh my gosh, what I wouldn't give to live in the "Ranchettes" as opposed to the ticky tacky nonsense I'm saddled with now!!! :)

I'll post a photo on this site soon. I wish I'd made the trek to St. Luke's 100th.

Posted on: Apr 22, 2008

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