Illinois that is....then maybe off to Meriden, IL and a couple miles more and I roll into,.....Triumph, IL.

Hinckley also has the distinction of being the place where the Harlem Globetrotters played their very first game. It is a distance out from the city of Chicago, but back then ( the 1920s ), it was way, way , way out in the middle of very rural America.


Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.----Thomas Jefferson