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1. MikeT
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   I did a keyword search on the Illinois tourism site on 'Riverside', and there were no hits - on Riverside, IL.

   The closest hit was North Riverside Mall Park.

   Do we want to keep people out of town or increase our exposure? Is this an accident / oversight or intentional?

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   Best Western Riverside - Danville (Hotel/Motel)
   42 rooms, handicapped accessibility, cable television and computer hook ups

   57 S. Gilbert, Danville, 61832 Hotel/Motel Central
   Big Muddy River (Lakes/Rivers)
   Visitors can canoe from Riverside Park in Murphysboro to Rattlesnake Ferry in LaRue Pine Hills.

   Big Muddy River, Murphysboro, 62966 Lakes/Rivers Southern
   Days Inn & Suites Rockford/Loves Park (Hotel/Motel)
   Free continental breakfast, indoor pool, high speed internet access, complimentary USA Today; executive suites with sofas and in-room whirlpool available; close to intersection of Riverside Blvd. and Interstate 90.

   4313 Bell School Rd., Loves Park, 61111 Hotel/Motel Northern
   Days Inn Quincy Riverside (Hotel/Motel)
   Conveiently located 1 block from convention center, and overlooking mighty Mississippi River. Best value in Quincy!!

   200 Maine St., Quincy, 62301 Hotel/Motel Western
   Marinelli Field (Event/Sport Venue)
   Minor league baseball field with full facilities and grandstands, plus soccer fields and baseball diamonds in attractive, riverside setting in Blackhawk Park.

   101 - 5th Ave., Rockford, 61104 Event/Sport Venue Northern
   Maxons Riverside Restaurant (American)
   Regarded as one of the finest in the region. Featuring very fine dining, a gracious atmosphere ans that magnificent riverfront view, it is open year round. Relaxed luncheons or romantic evenings on the river..Enjoy our famous Orange Rolls!

   1469 IL. Rt 2 N., Oregon, 61061 American Northern
   Monte's Riverside Inn (American)
   "For the finest steaks, seafood, and pasta in LaSalle County."

   903 E. Norris Dr., Ottawa, 61350 American Chicago/Chicagoland
   Nancy's Riverside Quilting (Crafts/Artisans)
   Historic 1800's home houses unique gift shop, quilts and Cave-in-Rock souvenirs. Custom quilting and embroidery can be ordered.

   303 Main Street, Cave-in-rock, 62919 Crafts/Artisans Southern
   North Riverside Park Mall (Shopping Center / Mall)
   Conveniently located on Cermak Road west of Harlem where you'll find the latest fashions, great food and fun. Recently renovated with play areas and seating areas.

   7501 W. Cermak Rd., Riverside, 60546 Shopping Center / Mall Chicago/Chicagoland
   Pride of Oregon (Pleasure Boats & Tours)
   Authentic paddlewheel boats. 102 feet of elegance and charm. 150-passenger vessel docked at Maxson Riverside Restaurant.

   1469 Rt. 2 North - PO Box 497, Oregon, 61061 Pleasure Boats & Tours Northern
   River House Bed & Breakfast Getaway Lodge and Retreat Lodge (Bed & Breakfast)
   Romantic luxury accommodations plus activity themed lodging in two riverside guesthouses. B&B host Patty Michalsen's recipes have been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Illinois Cookbook, and America's Best Bed & Breakfast Recipes.

   11052 Ventura Blvd., Machesney Park, 61115 Bed & Breakfast Northern
   Riverside Flea Market (Flea Markets/Farmer's Market)
   The fourth full weekend of every month starting in April & ending in October.The flea market includes crafts, antiques, baked goods and more! Located in the historic Boat Works on the riverfront.

   400 Front St., Grafton, 62037 Flea Markets/Farmer's Market Southwest
   Riverside Park (Garden/Nature Park/Area)
   This 34-acre park located next to the Big Muddy River includes a public boat ramp, picnic areas, picnic tables, ball fields, hiking trails, pavillion, and playground areas. In addition, there is a historic band shell where events are scheduled.

   2610 W. Riverside Park, Murphysboro, 62966 Garden/Nature Park/Area Southern
   Riverside Park Band Shell (Event/Sport Venue)
   Riverside Park Band Shell, built in 1938 by WPA, one of the largest of its kind in the nation. The scenic location will accommodate 10-15,000 visitors for concerts and special events.

   2610 W. Riverside Park, Murphysboro, 62966 Event/Sport Venue Southern
   Riverside Park Campground (Camping/RV Parks)
   66 sites and 66 hook-ups.

   4105 Sandhill Rd., Springfield, 62702 Camping/RV Parks Central
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   Sinnissippi Gardens, Greenhouse, Lagoon & Recreation Trail (Garden/Nature Park/Area)
   A take-off point for the 10-mile Rock River Recreation Path, this riverside park features annual gardens, a floral clock planted each year with 1000's of colorful annuals, a lagoon & fishpond, and a lush greenhouse with a brilliant November mum show.

   1300 N. Second St., Rockford, 61107 Garden/Nature Park/Area Northern
   Sportscore Two/Indoor Sports Center (Event/Sport Venue)
   124-acre sports complex at I-90/Riverside Blvd. intersection. Includes Wedgbury Stadium, Indoor Sports Center and outdoor sports fields for soccer, rugby, football, volleyball, basketball, in-line hockey, badminton and adapted and wheelchair sports.

   8800 E. Riverside Blvd., Loves Park, 61111 Event/Sport Venue Northern
   The Herrington Inn (Hotel/Motel)
   63-room elegant, intimate hotel with amenities of a grand French country inn. Riverside spa, luxurious rooms with fireplaces, whirlpools, and balconies. Meeting/banquests up to 225.

   15 S. River Ln., Geneva, 60134 Hotel/Motel Chicago/Chicagoland
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   Posted Thursday Mar 8, 2007 15:40 #

2. spatny
   Member

   OK EDC guys - get on it. We are not a nowhere Village, are we?

   Posted Thursday Mar 8, 2007 17:47 #

3. mjvolo
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   Is there any type of brochure for Riverside? Like a walking tour? I go to different towns and hotels and see the little brochures of interesting (and some not so interesting) things to do in the area.

   Is there a walking tour now? I met 2 men this summer in front of the library. They were biking in from Chicago and they were looking for Scottswood. They had a list of houses they were touring in Oak Park and Riverside.

   Posted Friday Mar 9, 2007 11:11 #

4. spatny
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   MJVOLO - There are both, sort of. The Historical Museum (in the Wellhouse) has a brochure (maybe more) that shows houses in the First Division and some elsewhere. I think the library has it, along with maps. The Olmsted Society does two different housewalks - North of the tracks and South of the tracks - on regular dates (Sundays, I think) in the summer. I'm trying to interest the Village to roduce a brochure showing Wright and Prairie Houses in town that would be distributed at Oak Park visitors center and the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Gift Shop were hundreds of people on the weekends go to tour the Wright houses there. Nobody seems interested beyond saying "That's a nice idea." It would be cheap to do and bring in a ready audience of people who would come here with the express purpose of visiting Wright's only homes built in an Olmsted suburb (except for the Paul Hanna "Honeycomb House" at Stanford.)

   Posted Friday Mar 9, 2007 12:00 #

5. Elisa
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   The Olmsted Society has tours ~ here is the information off of their website:

   Walking Tours of Riverside - Tentative 2007

   The last Sunday of each month (May-October) 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tours depart from the Riverside Train Depot. A donation of $7 is suggested ($5 for seniors and students with ID). Attendees receive a commemorative Riverside map and brochure. Tours of North and South Riverside alternate monthly. Group tours for 10 or more can be arranged by calling 708-442-7675 or 708-442-0845.

   May 27 (North tour)

   June 24 (South tour)

   July 29 (North tour)

   August 26 (South tour)

   September 23 (North tour)

   October 28 (South tour)

   (I assume that the "North" and "South" Riverside refers to the north and south sides of town, not North Riverside the village!)

   Posted Friday Mar 9, 2007 12:03 #

6. mjvolo
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   Who do we contact to try and push the brochure and highlighting the walking tours? Would it be the EDC? Historic Commision? Maybe both.

   Posted Friday Mar 9, 2007 16:03 #

7. spatny
   Member

   I think the Village Manager and the EDC. They could make it happen. The brochure needs to link, visually in a simple map, the three Wright houses in Riverside with the architectural tourists that arrive in Oak Park by the hundreds every week. The Oak Park Visitors Center will stock the brochure as will the Wright Center at the Studio/House on Chicago Avenue. Another place for distribution is at Unity Temple on Lake Street. River Forest has a very important house, the Winslow House, and the Coonley House here in town was chosen as one of the most important homes of the first fifty years of the century by Architectural Record. It is also the house about which Wright said to me personally, "That's where I thought I had it." A simple map showing the connecting loop of First Avenue and Harlem Avenue and how to find the houses in Riverside would be easy to produce. I'll be happy to provide the info if they will make a decision to produce it.

   Posted Friday Mar 9, 2007 16:28 #

8. MikeT
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   Some other questions that are prompted by the thread subject: Do we as a village want more exposure to the outside? If so, How can Riverside get linked into the Illinois tourism site?

   Th OP brochure thing as well as this item are but two of the many aspects of promoting Riverside in a bigger way, it seems to me.

   A bunch of creative imaginative business oriented people who know how to market something probably should also get involved - assuming we want to expose Riverside in to the outside world in a bigger way than we do now.

   Off hand, here are some ideas from this naive computer programmer:

   *Make sure Riverside, IL is linked everywhere in the Internet world of search engines and the like. I see way too many times that Riverside, CA comes up ahead of or instead of Riverside, IL. We're much better than that Orange county nothing! We were there first.

   *We should have a nice nice (stutter intentional) streaming video of our town complete with music as a person wends his or her self through our town that can be looked at through the internet. It should include snippets of our towns activities, too, such as the july 4th guthrie park town picnic and parade, baseball and soccer (playing and watching) in Indian gardens (hard to find a better LOOK, or context, than Indian Gardens!), and ice skating on Longcommon, etc.

   *identification of out target audience
   for example,

   --architecture aficionados
   -------college programs
   ............I saw a great idea recently somewhere mentioning the possibility of talking to the urban planning programs of colleges to have field work required to visit Riverside. More local colleges, UIC and UIUC, were mentioned in this conversation.

   But I say make sure colleges all over the world, with any kind of art-architecture program, know about Riverside. Recall, for example, in the Olmsted Links that I stumbled on an entry from a Purdue student who was coming to Riverside to survey and report how Riverside has changed from the original plan. I also saw a U Michigan study cited in this space.
   http://www.infonavigate.com/boston/145.htm

   -------non college architectural aficionados

   --city dwellers who want suburbia but still access to chicago
   --city dwellers who want suburbia but still access to chicago and good schools

   --bicycle enthusiasts
   *consider the bemis bike path extension

   --zoo patrons

   *consult with realtors and businesses, such as the VC group

   *start a conversation on B and B's in the R1 district

   *etc

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   In short, don't make this stuff 'accidental'. We welcome and want the 'accidental tourist', but want more....

   ...or do we? +

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   +is this a simple rhetorical question, or an allusion to Dr Evil?

   Posted Sunday Mar 11, 2007 09:30 #

9. KimJ
   Member

   To get the search engines revved up and web info out there there has to be
   1. An initial search for the item.
   2. Consistent hits on the site.

   If one googles "Riverside", our village website is Number 11.
   If one googles "Riverside TIF", Concerned Citizens website is Number 1 and the Village is 2.

   The point is, not only does the information need to exist, people need to know enough about it to look for it in the first place.
   Kind of like knowing the "right" question to ask.

   Posted Sunday Mar 11, 2007 16:32 #

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