***NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES***
This geoart is part of a nationwide project:
THE USA 50 STATE STAR GEOART celebrating every state in the USA
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State Fact: Octave Chanute was a Chicago engineer and early pioneer in aviation. He flew gliders at Indiana Dunes and visited Kitty Hawk when the Wright brothers were testing gliders. The Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois, now decommissioned, was named after him. A town in Kansas is named for him. As an engineer, he built the Chicago and Kansas City stockyards and the the first bridge to cross the Missouri River at Kansas City. He is buried at Springdale Cemetery, Peoria.
There are 50 caches. All but the final (#50) are bison tubes. See the final for its special instructions based upon the state facts.
Find this cache by adjusting its posted coordinates
N +0.627 W +1.791
The Illinois Star is a joint project of the Peoria Area Cachers and Central Illinois Geocaching Association.
