Illinois Curiosities

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Prairie State has to offer!

Whether you’re a born-and-raised Illinoisan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Illinois Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Richard Moreno takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of Illinois.

• Take a date to the World’s Largest Laundromat, a 13,500-square-foot facility in Berwyn with 153 washers and 148 dryers in nearly constant use.
• Enter Chicago’s “sub” culture with a museum visit to the U-505, the only German submarine in the United States.
• Visit the site in Carthage where Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith was murdered on June 27, 1844.
• Learn about the strange case of H. H. Holmes’ notorious Murder Castle and the sad tale of Burr Oak Cemetery.