Illinois

It’s Day 181 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. When I was putting together this leg of the trip, I saw that the Route 34 Drive In Theatre in Earlville IL would be open from the previous Friday through the Tuesday Fourth of July and somehow mistook it for a seven-day schedule. That’s why I took a two-day detour…

It’s Day 178 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. Ah, Chicagoland! Even though the fastest route was only 38 miles, it took a little over an hour to drive the suburban highways from McHenry to the Cascade Drive-in in West Chicago IL. The McHenry opened in 1961, and it’s huge. The lot can hold over 1200 cars, all pointed…

It’s Day 177 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. With a short detour to avoid the tollway, it took about three and a half hours to drive east from Blue Grass IA to the McHenry Outdoor Theater in McHenry IL. The McHenry opened as the Skyline, and there’s a remarkable amount of confusion about when that happened. One source claimed…