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.
Originating in the British village of Cheddar in Somerset, cheeses of this style are produced beyond this region and in several countries around the world. Cheddar is the most popular type of cheese in the UK, accounting for 51% of the country's Â£1.9 billion annual cheese market. It is also the second-most-popular cheese in the US (behind mozzarella), with an average annual consumption of 10 lb (4.5 kg) per capita. The United States produced approximately 3,000,000,000 lb (1,300,000 long tons; 1,400,000 tonnes) in 2014, and the UK 258,000 long tons (262,000 tonnes) in 2008.