Along the Lincoln Highway, April 2020: Rochelle's Lincoln Highway Heritage Festival Canceled Because of You-Know-What and a Pot Palace in DeKalb

APRIL 28

The 2020 festival in Rochelle, Illinois, was canceled.  Safety, as you know.  This would have been the 23rd festival and is the first time in its history that it has been canceled.

But, dates have been set for 2021:  August 20, 21 and 22.  Always sad that these dates always conflict with nearby DeKalb's Corn Fest.

We've been to it several times.  Lots of fun and entertainment.

See Ya Next Year.

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And, in unrelated Lincoln Highway News, in nearby DeKalb, Illinois, home of Northern Illinois University.

DeKalb has approved a second  pot shop, though it will be awhile before you can buy product.  It will be at the Junction  Shopping Center at 818 W. Lincoln Highway.   Hmmmn.  A pot shop at a college.  Now, who'd have figured.

Of course when we went there, we always had the rumors of marijuana growing wild along railroad tracks.  In the last several years, thanks to my World War II blog, I have found that there was some truth to those rumors. There was a thriving hemp industry in DeKalb County during the war.

--Old RoadHead