A Trip to DeKalb for NIU Basketball-- Part 4: Talking About Hotels

Drove Annie Glidden Road to Lincoln Highway (Illinois Highway 38) and then west a short distance to the Red Roof Inn which has become the main place we stay at these days.  And, we have a history with this hotel.

But before getting there, we passed the old Travel Inn which has been closed for many years.  It used to be Motel 6 when we were students and for a lot of years afterwards and was the main place we stayed at for homecomings and other events.  It wasn't the Hilton, but clean enough.  But we noticed when it became Travel Inn it started slipping.

Plus, the St. Valentine's Day killer at NIU stayed there the night before he committed those horrible murders in 2008.

The Red Roof Inn used to be the Best Western and before that was the Holiday Inn.  When we got married on campus, August 25, 1973, at the campus Newman Center, we had our wedding reception at the Best Western.

So, this hotel has quite the history with us.

--RoadDog