The World Capital of Weird: Strange Ideas Reside in the Town of Kempton, Illinois, Population 231
By Hugh Iglarsh The Prairie State doesn’t get much flatter or emptier than the narrow northern panhandle of Ford County, Illinois, about eighty miles south-southwest of Chicago. Stretching on the map like an upraised middle finger far north of the county seat at Paxton, the area consists of once-swampy ground that surrounding counties didn’t claim. Drained
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