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.
Other 2014 world totals for processed cheese include: 1  from skimmed cow milk, 2.4 million tonnes (leading country, Germany, 845,500 tonnes) 2  from goat milk, 523,040 tonnes (leading country, South Sudan, 110,750 tonnes) 3  from sheep milk, 680,302 tonnes (leading country, Greece, 125,000 tonnes)