Class A Street Rods Natives 2010-- Part 5

I had never seen that statue before. We also took a ride to Lorado Taft Campus where potential teachers at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb have outdoors education classes with students. Liz spent quite a bit of time out here when she was at Northern. She especially recalls the songs "Benny & the Jets" by Elton John and "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon, two songs the students played incessantly on their radios while they were out there.

It got so bad that she and other NIU students were trying to figure out how they could get into Oregon, the nearest town, and get some beer. I can hear it now, the kids drove us to drink!!

I never had a class out there, however.

Went into Oregon next and took some time to look at the court house, an impressive structure built in 1891. Two Civil War cannons are mounted in front, an 1864 six and a half inch Naval Parrott gun weighing 9,722 pounds and an 1846 Columbiad made in Boston, Massachusetts.

There is also a Soldiers' Monument built in 1911 by Lorado Taft, who also made the Black Hawk statue at Lowden State Park. It honors military personnel from the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War and World War I.

An Impressive Array at the Courthouse. --RoadDog