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I went to a Chicago public school and we went to Springfield for our 7th grade field trip (stayed overnight...it was a blast) and then to Washington D.C. for 8th grade. Of course, parents had to cough up money for those trips.
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Yeah, I remember those trips being offered, so I could have taken the trip if my parents were able to cough up the money (they weren't) (... and no, this is not a 'boohoo for me' type statement, I had a good life growing up, it was just a good life with very little money).
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My point with all this is that "taking a field trip to the state capitol" is not unique to Illinois. My kids did it here in Colorado in 3rd grade, part of their Colorado history unit. Of course, they were only about 25 miles from Denver, too. It was a day trip. I think every SD in metro Denver does that one at some time. Growing up in western Pennsylvaina, we never took a trip to Harrisburg. However, I imagine the schools closer to there do so.
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Oh, and its IL. ![]() |
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Southeren Illinois is full of these rednecks who follow these things.
I should know, i lived there and people their are like those discribed in the Larry The Cable Guy shows. |
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Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
Ha ha! Down here in Charleston we call it "rush minute". As in, "oh no, I'm stuck behind a school bus and a tractor." |
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Maybe the poster is far older than us and refuses to adopt the new abbreviation! |
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Heh, anyone remember when the "security fence" around O'Hare was nothing but brown-picket snow fencing that repeated "ILL" about every hundred feet?
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But times have changed. I hated having the abbreviation "ILL", didnt sound right (unless youre a Beastie Boys fan lol). |
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Faithfully, G.A. |
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