For this month, we will once again visit a very small town in Illinois, several of which I have covered in past articles. Illinois is a very interesting state and as much as most people just think of it as Chicago and its northern suburbs, whereas most of the state, known colloquially as “downstate” is mostly agricultural and filled with many small towns quite a few of which are down on their luck and becoming quite ghostly. So, this month I selected a note from my collection that is representative of one of these downstate very small towns so let’s visit tiny Ogden, Ill., and see what it has to offer.
Ogden is a small town in Champaign County, Illinois,
