O.K., itching to get away for a bit? Maybe you ARE spending too much time around these parts.

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Do you have Illinois on the brain? DO you want to get away to shake off all your Illinois habits?

According to Only in Your State here are 12 Signs you are Spending TOO MUCH Time in Illinois, hit the road for a bit!

 

  • You chuckle when people refer to their towns as “cities.”
  • You Shake your head when people still call it Willis Tower
  • When someone says “horseshoe,” you immediately think about dinner
  • You have fixed at least one tire due to potholes
  • You’ve become an expert at dodging deer
  • It's shorts weather, and an hour later it's snowing
  • Regular Crust pizza looks TOO thin
  • No way you put ketchup on a dog
  • You've become a huge beer snob
  • Illinois corn is a mandatory part of a summer meal
  • You just expect someone in politics to be corrupt and for a bunch of people to be mad about it
  • You realize that not every state looks like Illinois, and that’s what makes it special

 

I can remember the first Horseshoe I ate. I was down off of the campus of Western Illinois University. I got, "do you want a full or a half". That was the only question asked.

After a pound of french fries, 4 hamburger patties and what appeared to be a gallon of liquid cheese,  I was pretty much in a coma.

 

 

 

 

 

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