Dairy Queen
By John & Lenore Weiss
As the story goes…
The first Dairy Queen opened
on June 22, 1940, at 501 N. Chicago Street, Joliet, Illinois. Chicago
Street is original Route 66. It was
named Dairy Queen because the
founder believed this new tasty treat
was the Queen of dairy products.
The building still stands.
Illinois
Joliet
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JOLIET AREA
Chicago Portage
One-half mile north of the Harlem
Avenue exit from Interstate 55 is
where we find the Chicago Portage
National Historic Site (4600 S. Harlem,
www.chicagoportage.org). Here, a
steel sculpture depicts the events of
September 1673 when Marquette and
Joliet canoed from the Des Plaines
River to the Chicago River, thus crossing
a divide between the Great Lakes and
Mississippi River watersheds. Joliet
would later say that “it would only be
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