Grafton

There's a gorgeous chateau that overlooks the Mississippi River in Grafton, Illinois that is on the market now.

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur is the children's song that was playing in my head as I watched a video of a Jersey County, Illinois person who suddenly realized a young bobcat was staring at them.

There is a waterpark in Illinois that is home to a new ride called the Mississippi Monster, I rode it this last weekend, and it is quite possibly the best waterslide in the entire Land of Lincoln!

If you like the idea of zooming down a mountain, you can now do it for real in Grafton, Illinois as there's a new mountain coaster and it's officially ready for prime time.

I did a double-take when I saw the news that there is an alpine coaster coming to Illinois. Aren't alpine coasters for mountains? Yes, and one really is coming to a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River.

There are a lot of towns who are trying new things to convince potential residents to move there. For example, Grafton has a program where they are more or less paying you to move there. In this case, the details are extra important here.

Would you be willing to walk through a hotel that has a reputation of being one of the nation's most haunted even if it existed practically in your own backyard? You have that chance virtually as several investigators took a creepy walk through the Ruebel Hotel in Grafton, Illinois.