Location: Dwight
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1. Ambler's Texaco Gas Station, Dwight
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 92 reviews
Reviewed By FrankD834 - South Bend, United States
This was another great photo op for the car. The place was closed when I arrived, so I could park right at the pumps (which had an air bell that you drive over) and took pictures. There are all the usual Route 66 signs and information boards, plus, if you happen to be there when it is ope, there is a little museum inside with a car and other memorabilia. I could see a small gift shop too. I was a little bummed I missed it. There is a button to push that has really good information about the building, the town and what is in the nearby towns. I love that places are doing that. There are a few picnic tables you can relax at and what looks like is either going to be or was a lighted billboard at the back of the property. It will be a cool thing if they get it finished. This should be your #1 priority for a Route 66 stop in Dwight, but there are a few other places worth a look too.
2. Unpossible Mead
Unpossible Mead, in Dwight, IL, is the premier meadery serving Dwight, Peoria Heights, Maple Park, Bloomington, Normal, Champaign and surrounding areas since 2018. Our meads are made in-house and we offer fruit meads, traditional meads, barrel aged meads, caramelized honey meads, mead to go and pre-packaged meads. We also offer craft beer, honey wine, cider, hard cider and much more. For a unique
3. Oughton Estate Windmill
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
The John R. Oughton House, also known as The Lodge or the Keeley Estate, is a 20-room Victorian mansion located at 101 West South Street in Dwight, Illinois, in Livingston County, on I-55, 79 miles southwest of Chicago. The grounds remain mostly unchanged since the house, which was built in 1891, was moved from its original site in 1894 and remodeled a year later. Oughton occupied the two-story house, which included a bowling alley in the basement, a dance hall and interior oak, mahogany and birch finishing, until his death in 1925. In 1930, it became a boarding house for patients of the internationally known Keeley Institute, which was founded in 1879 by Oughton, an Irish chemist, Dr. Lesley Keeley and a merchant named Curtis Judd. The Institute, which operated until 1965, utilized a new form of treatment for alcoholism. The estate features two outbuildings, a carriage house, a pond and a windmill, all of which were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. But perhaps the centerpiece of the estate, especially for tourists, is the 110-foot-high windmill tower. Originally called the Pumping Tower, the windmill with its 840-foot deep well, provided a water system for the Oughton Estate. It also featured an 88-barrel cypress tank at the top and its head, which was 16 feet across, was one of the largest in the United States at the time of its construction in 1896. Today, visitors stroll the area and view the restored windmill, pond and 50-by-80-foot brick barn.
4. Willy's Pub
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 3 reviews
