Oops... Entered Illinois Yesterday

[grogie]

Yesterday I drove to mom to Evansville, where I'd never been before. On the way home I set the GPS to take me back to her house (due west of Crawfordsville). I wasn't familiar with the roads in the area and the GPS routed me north through Illinois (Highway One I think). Oops! When I saw the "Welcome to Illinois" sign it was like I was entering Mexico. I promptly turned around and went back to America.

 

[chezuki]

Yesterday I drove to mom to Evansville, where I'd never been before. On the way home I set the GPS to take me back to her house (due west of Crawfordsville). I wasn't familiar with the roads in the area and the GPS routed me north through Illinois (Highway One I think). Oops! When I saw the "Welcome to Illinois" sign it was like I was entering Mexico. I promptly turned around and went back to America.

Oof… I recommend a shower!

 

[brian.derby]

Oof… I recommend a shower!

Delousing!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cobber]

Did you have your shots?

 

[JimmyR]

I might go so far as to recommend a 72 hour quarantine, to make sure you don't develop any unusual symptoms.

 

[jesse485]

It isn't really Illinois that's bad, it's pretty much just Chicagoland. So if you entered the southern part, I'm not sure a shower or quarantine is really necessary.

 

[melensdad]

Yesterday I drove to mom to Evansville, where I'd never been before. On the way home I set the GPS to take me back to her house (due west of Crawfordsville). I wasn't familiar with the roads in the area and the GPS routed me north through Illinois (Highway One I think). Oops! When I saw the "Welcome to Illinois" sign it was like I was entering Mexico. I promptly turned around and went back to America.

You actually entered VERY GUN FRIENDLY TERRITORY down there in Southern Illinois. As pointed out by another, its Chicagoland that is unfriendly toward firearms. The rest of the state wants good carry laws, hats FOID cards, etc but those things were shoved down their throats by the Chicago-way politicians.

Its even legal to carry a gun in your car in Illinois, simply take the round of the chamber, mag out, and put the loaded magazine and unloaded gun, together, in your glovebox or armrest. No need to lock it up.

 

[grogie]

^That's always how I've traveled through Illinois as I usually drive each summer to Colorado where our Indiana permits are valid. It gets old having to unload and lock up my Glock for both Illinois and Kansas.

P.S. I do have to say I really like southern Illinois. My dad grew up there and it's a pretty area. They should secede from Chicago.

 

[NapalmFTW]

Try travelling through Indiana if you're not an LTCH holder.

I hate it. Gun in the trunk, unloaded, locked up, magazine seperate.

C'mon Hoosiers.

 

[youngda9]

Some penicillian may be in order...you may have an STD.

 

[Sylvain]

Welcome back home!

 

[Colt556]

Can't people read maps anymore?

 

[Gino66]

I school at Wabash Valley in Mt Carmel, across from Princeton. States attorney down there will not prosecute anyone for the presence of a firearm. He is on record as stating gun crimes present a different story, like terroristic threatening, robbery, etc. Just to have it, no problem. Yeah, oddly WVC is one of a handful of Gunsmithing colleges in the nation. We take our guns to college regularly....

 

[mbaza3]

I cross from IN to IL on my way to work in Chicago everyday but unfortunately all my little friends have to stay at home.

 

[shadohman]

Try travelling through Indiana if you're not an LTCH holder.

I hate it. Gun in the trunk, unloaded, locked up, magazine seperate.

C'mon Hoosiers.

Get a non-resident permit/license form any state and you are covered because Indiana recognizes them all, unlike Illinois where there is no option other than be one of the few privileged elected officials who are allowed to carry.

 

[grogie]

Can't people read maps anymore?

Having a Garmin is awesome. Even better that it's now on my iPhone.

 

[snorko]

I am guessing you missed the exit north of Vincennes? I too did that the first time I drove to college at Wabash in C-ville.

 

[Concerned Citizen]

Try travelling through Indiana if you're not an LTCH holder.

I hate it. Gun in the trunk, unloaded, locked up, magazine seperate.

C'mon Hoosiers.

It would be easier to just get one, wouldn't it? Unless of course you're not allowed, or not a resident. But then IN honors many others, as stated above.

 

[rhino]

Yesterday I drove to mom to Evansville, where I'd never been before. On the way home I set the GPS to take me back to her house (due west of Crawfordsville). I wasn't familiar with the roads in the area and the GPS routed me north through Illinois (Highway One I think). Oops! When I saw the "Welcome to Illinois" sign it was like I was entering Mexico. I promptly turned around and went back to America.

I feel your pain. Back in 1997 or so, I was trying to follow someone on some county roads in the west edge of Vermillion Co (Indiana). It was late summer and the corn was too tall to see any landmarks, it was cloudy and couldn't see the sun. The roads were not marked at the intersections and at some point, I lost the guy I was following.

When I realized I was in Vermillion Co ILLINOIS, I panicked a little.

 

[NapalmFTW]

It would be easier to just get one, wouldn't it? Unless of course you're not allowed, or not a resident. But then IN honors many others, as stated above.

I HAD one. I'm no longer a resident.

Bloody wife.