"Downtown Chicago"

For the last 3 years we have made several trips between Central IL and the Chicago area to visit family and friends.  At one point about a year ago, we were making the trip at night.  As we approached the part of

I-55 near Joliet where you pass by the oil refinery, Kara shouted, "Look mom!  Downtown!"

In the dark of night, with all of the refinery's towers and smoke stacks lit up with bulbs, it did sort of resemble a miniature Chicago skyline.  I laughed to myself then and every time I have passed that site since then.