Author Archives: Neil Cogbill

Intent on seeing the Figge Art Museum and whatever else struck them as being noteworthy, the Getaway Guys descended on Davenport, Iowa on a chilly Saturday morning. A month earlier […]

Galena, Galena, Galena. At one time or another every other person in the Chicago area has visited Galena, Ill., or so it would seem. Not terribly far from Chicago and […]

Rock Island, Ill., gets its name from the 946-acre hunk of rock in the middle of the Mississippi River occupied by the Rock Island Arsenal.  Before the island came under […]

On a very pleasant weekend last month we explored Nauvoo, Illinois. Alan had visited Nauvoo before, once as a youngster living in Quincy, Illinois and later in 1982 as a […]

Here is something for area Chicagoans ages 2 to 90. The Getaway Guys thought, “To heck with seriousness, let’s do something light-hearted.” At the Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG) visitors to […]

In a pleasant environ south and slightly west of downtown Chicago, the Getaway Guys explored a cluster of private residences designed by Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937) between 1909-1914. Born in […]

Based on present population distribution, most Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan county courthouses are in pretty odd places. When most (not all) county boundaries were firmly established in the latter […]

For some, a visit to the county courthouse means real trouble, for others it is just a nuisance. So readers may wonder what could possibly motivate the Getaway Guys to […]

There are countless cemeteries in Chicago, but few as remarkable as Graceland, Rosehill and Bohemian National. The Getaway Guys visited all three in late 2011. The final park-like resting places […]