email: dabadger@casscomm.com I will be calling upon potential clients during the months of April and May throughout the Illinois River Road region. My goal is 50-60 drawings in this publication. **** I now have 60 drawings. ****************** DRAWINGS BY COMMUNITY	visit: illinoisriverroad.org
HAVANA Ma's Got'a Notion Never Ending Story Wolters Drug Store LEWISTOWN Christy's Mercantile Main Street Treasures CANTON BANNER MANITO Willett'sWinery & Cellar Giving Tree Candles & Gifts PEKIN Kountry Korner Craft & Gift Mall EAST PEORIA PEORIA Lakeview Museum Kickapoo Creek Winery Wildlife Prairie Park I Know You Like A Book Pettengill-Morron House Museum John C. Flanagan House Museum Forest Park Nature Center MOSSVILLE Hayloft Shops CHILLICOTHE Happy Thought Coffee Three Sisters Park Waxwing Books Shore Acres Clubhouse LACON Julie's Corner Store Asher's Apron Marshall County Historical Society HENRY The Coffee Cup Mission Oak Inn Back N Thyme Manor Morrissey Family Produce Henry State Bank PRINCETON Bruce Jewelers Sweetie Caramel Creations Annies little Pots Hoffman's Patterns of the Past Kirby Henning Pharmacy Beetz Me! Aspen Ridge Furniture Lovejoy Homestead Bureau County Historical Society HENNIPEN Putnam County Historical Society - Pulsifer House SPRING VALLEY Richard A. Mautino Memorial Library Valley Bar & Grill PERU Old Glory LA SALLE Hegeler Carus Mansion I&M Canal Association Uptown Grill UTICA LaSalle County Museum Starved Rock Lodge & Conference Center Starved Rock Marketplace Cajun Connection Duffy's Landers House The Willows OTTAWA Deja Vu Beyond the Grapevine Jobst Monument and Gift Shop City of Ottawa Reddick Mansion Jerimiah Joe Gramma's Attic Antiques The Cheese Shop STREATOR Streator Tourism	The Illinois River Road is the theme for a new book by David Alan Badger. The self-taught artist from Havana, Illinois has penned 8,000 drawings of Illinois architecture over the last twenty-seven years. Tentatively titled Recipes from the Illinois River Road, it is the first cookbook dedicated to the Illinois River.   Badger began work on the Illinois River Road book in early April which combines a series of drawings and recipes to create a "taste of the region". The author is contacting businesses and other interested parties about the project which has been endorsed by the Illinois River Road National Scenic Byway. Each business that purchases 24 copies of the book wholesale may submit a recipe and receive, in return, the original pen and ink drawing (copyright free) of their business and be featured in two pages of the publication.   Anaise Berry, Director of the Illinois Scenic Byway, said, "I think this is a great economic development tool for Byway-type businesses".   Badger plans to feature books on each of the state's seven scenic byways. Recipes from the Meeting of the Great Rivers was released in May 2008. Each book takes up to four months to complete but the artist has even loftier goals. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's body of work totaling over 20,000 original drawings, Badger has set that milestone as his ultimate plateau.      dabadger@casscomm.com