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This sign is at the bottom of a ravine between the Grand Trunk Railroad and Deep River County Park. It advertises the Illiana Hotel in Whiting, Indiana. How did it get all the way out to Deep River? — who knows? Perhaps it once stood along the old Lincoln Highway or another main road where travelers in need of a hotel room might be expected to pass.
According to an article on the Whiting-Robertsdale Historical Society site, the Illiana Hotel opened in 1928. The building, located at 1200 119th Street, was demolished in 2017, at which time (according to the article) the hotel itself "had been closed for years."
I would never have noticed the sign but for the rain that has swollen the little creeks flowing into the Deep River, so that the spot where the dogs and I usually cross this one was too deep.
"Fireproof," reads the first line of the sign. Sounds dangerous.
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