In order to encourage Illinois tourism on the old âMother Roadâ, the State of Illinois placed âHistoric Route 66â signs along the old route about 1995. The signs are along Rt. 53 through Braidwood.
What was the world's largest cheese? At the 1964 World's Fair in New York the Wisconsin Pavilion displayed the world's largest cheese. Using 16,000 cows to produce 170,000 quarts of milk, Wisconsin had the ingredients they need to make the world's largest cheese. The world's largest cheese measured a cheddary 14 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 feet and weighed a cheesy 34,591 pounds.
The United States is one of the largest producers of cheese in the world. The total number of. industry establishments in the United States in 1995 was 432. In 1995, total natural cheese production in the. U. S., excluding cottage cheeses, was 6.9 billion pounds, and total processed cheese production was. 2.3 billion pounds. Wisconsin is the leading producer of cheese in the United States, accounting for over 30. percent of all cheese production in the country. Popular types of natural cheeses include unripened (e.