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Chicago's West Side will get a $7 Billion makeover thanks to the families who own The Chicago Blackhawks, Bulls, and the United Center.

Over the years, there's one Illinois mansion that became famous because it became synonymous with a hit TV series. Now, you can see what it's like inside the palatial palace that was seen weekly in the hit TV series "Empire" that's a real mansion in Illinois.

It's not an island - yet - but it's about as close as you're gonna get in Missouri and it could be whatever you want it to be. Home, resort, condos...use your imagination on this unique parcel of Missouri land that's currently available.

If the word "equestrian" makes you feel all warm inside, then I have found a Missouri place that will make the horse lover in you swoon. It's a gorgeous Missouri horse farm that's located not far from the Mississippi River.

If caught, you could be fined.

One of the benefits of being Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes other than having multiple Super Bowl trophies on your mantle is having the ability to have many homes. You can see inside all of his Missouri places and even his infamous shoe closet.

Soon you're buying far too many little white alpaca stuffies, and wondering how you got here.

I'm basically not gonna do a traditional "recipe" thing, I'm just gonna talk you through it like your Grandma did. You know she never really followed the recipe to the letter anyway.

After making the mistake of once telling my dad I was bored during summer vacation and having him find lots of chores for me to fix that, I've been careful about saying something is boring. However, travel websites that track these sorts of things have no problem at all telling you that Illinois has got some seriously dull places to visit...assuming you'd ever want to.

Wait, what? I thought that if you were going to put together a piece about the most charming, beautiful, romantic, scenic, historic, welcoming, or interesting town in Illinois you had to write about Galena. Don't get me wrong, I love visiting Galena, but they're always being named number-one for something...but not in this category.