I've never really contemplated street naming, per se, but as I was heading into Barrington on Barrington road today, I started a mental list of streets named for various nearby towns. In the suburban Chicago area, we have Palatine Road that goes through the middle of Palatine and Schaumburg Road that goes through the middle of Schaumburg. However, Mount Prospect Road kind of misses the center of Mount Prospect where Elmhurst Road goes right down the middle. Elmhurst Road, of course, goes right through downtown Elmhurst but, for some reason, it has been renamed York Road by then.
In the south suburbs, 159th Street is a major road that goes through several towns - except South Holland. Upon leaving Harvey for South Holland, 159th Street inexplicably becomes 162nd Street; apparently three blocks further south without moving so much as a fraction of a degree of longitude. Naturally, once you leave South Holland for Calumet City, everything is right again as the 159th Street name returns.
Perhaps the city of Atlanta has found a way to circumvent all of the confusion created by streets with multiple names. I think most of the streets there are named Peachtree.
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I've been very intrigued by the various names of cities across Illinois. For example, we have a Paris and Atlanta Illinois. Did we run out of creativity and began to steal names of famous places? It's always confusing when I hear someone lives in Atlanta or went to Paris over the weekend. I initially did a double take, but now imagine that anyone claiming to sit by the eiffel tower in a beret actually spent some time in a one horse town in the bowels of Abe Lincoln land. Now, if we only could get more creative then Bloomington. Is it Bloomington, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana?
Illinois may have Paris and Atlanta, but the great state of Michigan has Hell. According to Wikipedia, the popluation is only 266 people. I have to believe that all those people who have been told to go to Hell have chosen to not actually stay there.
I prefer to cite my favorite destination as Intercourse, Pennsylvannia where I have spent many a sleepless night. Always thought it was an interesting dinner topic to raise when I was "stuck in Intercourse" during a business trip!
Funny thing, your traveling companions always thought they were stuck in Hell.
Perhaps it was my incredibe hot personality and looks that the women were referring to, no doubt.
Yes, you do look a little like a groundhog.
Yes, but a groundhog with all the women while you are surrounded by sheep, little bo peep!
Yes, but a groundhog with all the women while you are surrounded by sheep, little bo peep!
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