What's awesome about Rockford, IL? Friggin' CHEAPTRICK, mo'foers. Cheaptrick.

Rock on.

Darwin City - named after Charles Darwin, but quite frankly the man has never stepped a foot here. As for my state, we're famous for having world-known icons.

Crocodile Dundee? A few hundred kilometers south of Darwin, the dude who it's actually based off ended up getting killed in a shootout against police.

"That dingo ate my baby!" Happened in my state, too. In the southern-most city of Alice Springs.

Also, German tourists have a habit of dieing here in horrible ways. They've been eaten by crocs, involved in car crashes, plane crashes, almost every way possible. They're a running joke here.

Let's see... New Mexico. Off the top of my head, Albuquerque is a Weird Al song. Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill and Office Space) came from ABQ.

Roswell is where the aliens crashed and Fry became is own grandpa.

Los Alamos is where the first atomic bombs were built (and are still being built...).

The Trinity Site at White Sands Missile Range is where the first a-bomb was 'sploded.

Taos has skiing and an annoying hum(apparently).

Also, a town named after a game show, Billy the Kid, Smokey the Bear, and presidential hopeful Bill Richardson... who just got owned in Iowa.

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Not to mention you guys have a waterpark right off the highway and this one weird traffic light intersection that has hanging traffic light support poles on both sides of the road holding it up to form an arch, not the regular shape. I always wondered about that.

As for my town I'm just going to be lazy and post the wikipedia page. We were once known for our watches, but the gigantic factory that was here (I have only seen it in pictures and books about the town) has been since been torn down and a simple shopping center with a clock tower has been put in its place. But a riverboat casino is near the site. There has been a major downtown revival, encluding an apartment plan that will either make "Elgin lots of money or bankrupt it" considering the high price they are trying to offer for such a small place. I also want to mention Trygve Rovelstad, considering my family's close connections to him.

You people live disturbing close to me. Cut it out. And all my town has is nothing.

I live in Texas, Lubbock to be exact. We are most famous for Texas Tech and, Buddy Holly. Although we also got alot of other stuff like a windmill museum and, X-Fab which is a place that makes computer chips and, is also where I work (Security).

Uhm..Let me think..

I live in Tasmania, Australia.
We are famous for the Tasmanian Devil which a lot think of Tazzie from WB..Nothing a like XDDD We are meant to have the cleanest air in the world...Our market on the weekend called Salamanca Markets are famous world wide......I guess if you just come here you'll see why we are famous for our land....Lots of our fruits are exported which I find annoying because it leaves us with the cruddier fruit..lol

I live in a place in connecticut. Nothing interesting happens here at al. It's not famous for anything, but my state does make an appearance in some movies, mainly for Yale and junk.

Grimsby had like the world's largest fish industry at one point, I think that's about the extent of its fame.

There's some debate whether or not they are going to build the Peotone Airport. As far as I know, they have bought land.

A scene from A Road to Perdition was filmed outside of town. The house used burned down in May 2002. (I happened to be passing buy with friends on the way back from prom.) I've heard it was a firefighter training exercise, but I didn't care enough to check.

A few years ago, a truck crossed a railroad on Saint George Road and derailed a train killing 11. They had to move Highway 50 over to prevent another accident. The stop lights were very close to tracks.

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I live in Tasmania, Australia.
We are famous for the Tasmanian Devil which a lot think of Tazzie from WB..Nothing a like XDDD We are meant to have the cleanest air in the world...Our market on the weekend called Salamanca Markets are famous world wide......I guess if you just come here you'll see why we are famous for our land....Lots of our fruits are exported which I find annoying because it leaves us with the cruddier fruit..lol

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We also have Princess Mary, Eroll Flynn, the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger, the Beconsfield mine incident, the Port Arthur masscre, the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, Targa Tasmania, the Taste Of Tasmania, death metal band Psycroptic, Rickey Pointing, David Boon, Jaason Simmons, Marcos Ambrose and the Tasmanian Hawks (lol).

But let's face it. Tasmania has one truly incredible thing going for it.

Me. =D

Er, Asheboro, North Carolina is known best for our community college's photography course; it's the best on the east coast, 3rd in the nation. It'd bred a good indie band, Sullivan, and just down the road, in Randleman, is where Taking Back Sunday is from. Whoot.

Wilmington killed Brandon Lee though. -_-

hibbing minnesota.... well we've got bob dylan, the greyhound buses, and the largest iron ore mine in the world. there's a few other things, but i don't really care to remember them.

ever eaten a general mills cereal? Minneapolis has the headquarters to that too. (hiro missed that one lol)

Well Cannock was considered the 16th worse place to live in the UK recently. Used to be a lot of mining around here, but now thats finished this place is going to hell quite quickly.

Oh, and Cannock Chase is well known for certain...activities I won't go into here.

Ilkeston is/was? a mining town, although it's best known for it's close proximity to an IKEA, a dry skiing slope and, of course, it's Co-Op.

The jingle of Ilkeston Co-op Travel (it's all over the UK I think, Ilkeston is just the biggest which is why it's named after it) will chime in our hearts forever.

As for Leicester? Well, if you've ever eaten a Walkers crisp that's from here. As is Gary Lineker. Also Thomas Cook was from here iirc.

And we have the Leicester Tigers, which is one of the best rugby teams in the world 😀

Also Brian May from Queen is from here 😀

While Coachella has very little fame in and of itself, this region of the desert called the Coachella Valley is known for quite a few things, from popular celeb hangout Palm Springs to an honorable mention in a Bugs Bunny short.

The city of Indio right next door is known as the City of Festivals, and hosts many public events known the world over (or so they say!) like the traditional Riverside Country Fair & National Date Festival, the Indio International Tamale Festival, and has come to be recently famous for the annual Coachella Music & Arts Festival.

Hmm...my little piece of Alabama, just south of Birmingham...

Well, there's all the marches that took place during the Civil Rights Era (Martin Luther King Jr, yo). The area's also got plenty of limestone quarries.

Plus...it's Alabama. Use your imagination. 😛

Hahaha *high fives Ultra* Well i'm in North West Alabama, just below Tennessee. We have a W.C. Handy Music Festival every summer that is cool. There's also a Helen Keller Festival, but other than those two...nothing special. Hey Ultra you go to UAB, yes? I'm in Tuscaloosa man...if you are ever heading in town totally inform me or something. It would be awesome[mostly weird] to meet someone from the MoFo in real life.

OK. Well, I originally lived in York, which is famous for a number of things. It was where the notorious highwayman Richard Turpin was executed for one. It's where Guy Fawkes was born. It was also once one of two capital cities during the time of the Roman occupation of England, and again when the Vikings captured it later on. In addition, there's the York Minster which is a well-known tourist attraction due to it's historical significance.

Mind you, when I was about 11 my mum moved up to Dumfries, taking me and my brothers with her. Dumfries is most notable for being home to the famed Scottish poet, Robert Burns. If you think you've never heard of him, think again - if you've ever sung Auld Lang Syne at a New Year's party then you've sung one of his most widely known poems. Dumfries is also known for being the southernmost town in Scotland. It's less than 30 miles from Cumbria. It's also where J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, was educated.

And finally, I currently live in Dundee. This has a number of things it's famous for. The most obvious would be it being home to the publishers D.C Thomson, who publish the Dandy and Beano comics which have been running for an extremely long time. Dundee is also the fourth largest city in Scotland, and one of the most technology-centred cities in the world. Many great games programmers started out in Dundee. For example, DMA, the creators of the famous Grand Theft Auto games, started out as a small company made of Abertay University graduates here in Dundee. Real Time Worlds, the makers of Crackdown on the Xbox 360, currently has it's main office in Dundee (and in fact I'll be applying to join them, wish me luck! =D). Dundee is also where The View hail from, and where Snow Patrol was formed. Oh, and it's also where the "world's worst poet" lived and worked (that's William McGonagall for those who haven't heard of him).

And I think that's the lot. =P

My city is famous for the silver rush, the fact that it is one of the highest capitals in the States, the birthplace of Barbie and the capital of the state that John Denver loved. Oh and we voted not to have the 1976 Winter Olympics.

The Weather Channel, Glock USA, Lockheed Martin, and Home Depot are all headquartered in my area.

We're also the home of Gun Town USA, Kennesaw, Georgia, so named due to a law requiring all able-handed heads of household to own a loaded firearm. Crime rates are really low around there. =D

There's also several famous Civil War battlefields around here - this place is littered in national battlefield parks.

We're also the home of one of the original Six Flags theme parks, Six Flags over Georgia.

The weather channel has a liberal bias! You should be ashamed to host it.

my parents town isn't very interesting, tho' we get tourists who come to visit an old mansion house here.. it has peacocks and a seriously long driveway. oo
i think part of a tv series or a film was filmed here at one point as a bit of the town was shut off and the road covered in sawdust and mud.

as for wolverhampton, sadly it's most famous resident died recently. *a moment's silence for the ring road hermit*

Well, I live in Wichita, Kansas, which is often called the "Air Capital of the World", as the city's home to six major aircraft manufacturing companies. Also, it's the largest city in the state, which isn't saying much.

Other than that, there's nothing too interesting about it. Seriously, unless you're visiting me, don't come here. It sucks. >>

Corn

There is so much corn here

>> NYC

I'm not really gonna post what its famous for.

Ok lets me more specific.

Harlem.

Harlem Renaissance. New-Age Gentrification issues here. Bill Clinton has an office here. Chicken and Waffles are the s*** here. I'm here. Central Park is here too. And that's like the clouds hanging above the troposphere where the tip of the iceberg exists for this place.

Man DL I thought you lived in Montana o.o

"Congleton rare, Congleton rare, sold the bible to buy a bear."

Yep, that's what our town was orginally famous for, we sold the town's main bible to buy a dancing bear. Nowadays this means we get a bear on all sorts of stuff, incuding the brewery, Beartown Brewery (Which we all just call Beartown Tap after the pub on top of it.)

What else, not much really, we had a lot of early mills, and even some cigar factories. And John Bradshaw, who was, I don't know, president of the parlimentary commission to try the King or something like that.

As for Manchester? Well, we invented science.

And everything else. Seriously, if you think you know where something comes from, your wrong. It was really made in manchester.

I'm surprised Magic Waters is as big as it is up here in IL. Honestly, I think it's tiny as heck and doesn't have that many riding attractions. The wave pool could be ten million times better... and bigger.

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this one weird traffic light intersection that has hanging traffic light support poles on both sides of the road holding it up to form an arch, not the regular shape. I always wondered about that.

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... what? Where the hell? Downtown or something?

Well I know I've been to the waterpark at least once. It had long line at this one ride that was like a water slide roller coaster, so I just kept on going on the bigger tubed inflatable raft ones near the entrance. Everyone would go to the Rockford one despite that the Elgin area already had (I believe it is gone now) Racing Rapids connected to the defunct (and where I almost fell to my death my dad says) [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant a's_Village_(Illinois)]Santa Village.[/url] I never went to the waterpark portion.

The traffic light intersection in question was on your east side along a main road (I believe it went east to west) in fact... I believe this is it. Elgin used to have an Alt/B.R. US 20 going through our town (including the downtown), but it got officially decommissioned. Yet it still appears on many maps. The original route roads themselves still get used and are major streets.

Also see the thing circled below?

Yeah, Trygve Rovelstad designed it, among other metals. We have a giant version of that one erected in the downtown, though now you can't see it by car...but it is outside in public view if you want to get out and walk there, its a little tucked away near the river. Just think about that every time you watch Metalocalypse or some war movies as well, it might just make an appearance.

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Erm, I'll start with my town, Fleet: - Justin Rose (famous golfer) apparently lives here, son of Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith lives here somewhere (yet again, apparently), Stephen King (apparently) rented a house to write a couple of books and we have a big ass pond.

My county, Hampshire: - We produced a couple of literary icons, Charles Dickens and Jane Austin. We also have Martin Freeman who purely wins for starring in The Office as Tim and as Arthur Dent in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
On the other hand, Hampshire was quite important in World War II as Portsmouth had a Royal Navy harbour and the British Army have a permanent camp in Aldershot.

Yes, I really did the scrape the bottom of the barrel there to get some stuff on my local area. 😛

Well, I live in the state of Virginia, in a suburb of Washington, DC.

I currently live in Manassas. There were two Civil War battles fought here, and depending on where you live, they're also called the battles of Bull Run.
Here in Prince William County, there is a Marine Corps base (which is why I sometimes hear bomb practice), Potomac Mills Mall (used to advertise itself as one of the world's largest outlet malls), and the Nissan Pavillion, where major concerts are held. I was out of town at another show the last time Eminem was there. =(

Remember the D.C. sniper? One of the shootings was around here.
One of the crime drama shows, I think NCIS, often takes place in (but not filmed in) Quantico.

Disney wanted to build a theme park here called Disney America, but never did. Instead, they've built McMansions where they wanted to put it.

My village is alleged to have the record for the deepest fall of level snow in Britain - which is something over eight feet. I can't find any specific references to that, though.

I don't live that far from SX, Porterdale GA, which is just counted inside the Atlanta Metro Area, so I guess same as SX. And he forgot to mention World of Coke. <3

Let me start out by saying WAYNE'S WORLD DOES NOT TAKE PLACE IN AURORA, IL. It was filmed somewhere COMPLETELY different and does not count.

However, many scenes from the Blues Brothers -were- filmed maybe 20 minutes from where I live. 😀 As for other things Aurora's famous for... um... It was one of the first cities to have all-electric lighting for streets and whatnot, hence its nickname "The City Of Lights".

DuPage County has the largest community college in the USA (or is it midwest? I can't remember. Anyway, it's REALLY BIG.)

Craig wants me to add that he lives in London, England, which "isn't famous for anything".

~Shadowed Spirit Sage

Business 20? Hmmm... I pretty much driver through there on a daily basis for work... you sure it's not deeper into Belvidere?

No I'm sure the coordinates and google map picture I linked to don't lie. I remember it well, when I visited Rockford my sister, her boyfriend and I drove from Dekalb (I was visting for a few days) to Rockford and we spent the entire time trying to find the downtown but we got lost. We ended up going to this one shopping multiplex with a fabric/crafts store that was linked with a Gamestop (or a gaming store just like it, this was long time ago). My sister asked if I wanted to go in there but I had no real reason to go in there. What was funny (and what I should of gotten a picture of) Was a dry erase marker board ad with a "cute" drawing of Mario in a spacesuit in space promoting Super Mario Galaxy pressed on the window, since the official box art hadn't come out yet.

All I know is I remember crossing the weird intersection twice.

I did. From 2000-2006. I was in Missoula, Montana. College and all. That was a fun place to live . Might move back there in a few years when I put away enough cash to run away from it all.

But I'm a Harlemknight first and foremost

The coordinates you posted were to Indiana, so Rockford they were not. ;P

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... XD!!! You passed by Dan's store!!! Was it next to Kohl's and Payless? That was my base store, where I started out from, and moved up from there. Imagine, this could've been a day I was there dropping something off from my store to his and, GASP, YOU COULDA MET THE JIN-MAN!!!

It's a quiet town where I am. Not too much usually happens here. But for a week in July, my church, St. Philip the Apostle, holds their annual summer festival.

We cram so much into that parking lot. The games, rides, food... it is literally the 2nd largest carnival in Northern New Jersey apart from the Meadowlands Fair. And you can expect to see me showing off my game show chops as I call the action and count out the cash at the Money Wheel.

Any of you that are ever in my area during the 3rd week of July, come on down.

WHAT THE HELL GOOGLE. WHAT THE HELL.

Wait, wtf... that IS Rockford... why in the hell does it say IN?

We pwned a president, have big hair, and had a very successful 80's soap opera named after us. Plus Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. The town where I grew up specifically (Garland) is where the creators of Doom are from and where King of the Hill is supposedly based on, although Arlen and Garland are worlds apart.

Wikipedia says that David Koresh (Waco hostage incident kook) also went to one of our high schools and Prison break is filmed here.

Mostly Garland is just a hellhole and I thank God every day I don't live there anymore

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Ha ha... oh, sorry. My inner geek escaped confinement at reading the town name. :<

What can I say about Omaha, Nebraska? When I moved here all I knew was...there's cows and corn. Now I know, people here love their steaks and corn. We have the CornHuskers. No good professional non-university teams. Omaha is called the "Gateway of the west" because of its central location. Seriously, I'm 8 hours from Denver CO, 8 hours from Minneapolis, 8 from Chicago, 10 from Mt Rushmore, 2 hours to Kansas city etc.

The Nebraska Medical Center is home (my university) to the leading transplant center is the USA.

Since 1950, Omaha has hosted the annual NCAA College World Series men's baseball tournament in mid-June. It's so crowded it's crazy! People go insane not knowing what to do with the traffic.

About 430,000 souls reside in Omaha, making it the largest city in Nebraska... even bigger than the capital XD

The latest massacre occurred here last November. We have no mountains and last year it got -24 degrees F during February. Yeah, it's cold but in the summer it can get above 100 degrees F.

QUOTE: "According to USA Today, Omaha ranks eighth among the nation's 50 largest cities in both per-capita billionaires and Fortune 500 companies. Major employers in the area include Alegent Health, Omaha Public Schools, First Data Corporation, Methodist Health System, Mutual of Omaha, ConAgra Foods, Nebraska Health System, Odyssey Staffing, Inc., Offutt Air Force Base, Staff Mid-America and the West Corporation."

I live in Mount Vernon and no, I'm not referring to Washington's home nor
any of these ones but the one in New York.

These people lived at one time in my hometown: Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad, Art Carney, Ralph Branca, John Branca, Eddie F, Ken Singleton, Damion Easley, Dick Clark, Arthur Murray, Heavy D, Al B. Sure!, Asia Nitollano, Axella Johannesson, Betty Shabazz, Ben Gordon, Gus Williams, Ray Williams, Scooter McCray, Rodney McCray, Michael Imperioli, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Lachanze, Roz Kelly, P. Diddy, Andy Karl, Wayne Allyn Root, Damion Easley, Eddie Williams, David Chase, Leon Robinson, Sylvia Woods and E.B. White. We also have Saint Paul's Church (which is a famous place in American history)

The county, besides being the fictional home of these heroes, is famous for Howard Stern's first professional DJ job, part of Frank Cappa's It's a Wonderful Life's setting, and house Playland (remember Mariah Carey's video for Fantasy) among other famous landmarks.

Not to mention we are the home for her, him, him and his wife, and this lady's child home.

As far as I know?
The Cincinnati area is famous for the following:
A massive General Electric plant, the April 2001 riots, Jerry Springer (was Cincinnati's mayor at one point), Pete Rose and the Big Red Machine, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens (world famous for their breeding evidently, known as the "sexiest zoo on Earth" or something).

My own hometown?

Um...I can't say I know of anything Covington's famous for.

Cincinnati is also the hometown to the Kroger Corporation (second largest grocery retail chain in the US) and Proctor & Gamble (A over company with so many brand names it warrants it's own very detailed list on Wikipedia.) and was a major port of the underground railroad. It was also the location of the infamous "Who Tragedy", where eleven individuals were trampled to death in an attempt to enter a The Who concert.

According to Wikipedia, Covington itself is incredibly un-noteworthy.