"Macombopoly" on May 9 on the courthouse lawn

[pvk7072]

Relive the halycon days of "Forgottonia," the 1960s-70s partially-sarcastic effort by local officials and citizenry to tweak the political beaks of state and federal officials who "forgot" about this somewhat historical 16-county area of west central Illinois. See the link about the "game" scheduled for May 9 ...

https://www.visitforgottonia.com/

and

https://www.visitforgottonia.com/macombopoly/

... and read something about it all on Wikipedia at ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgottonia

 

[may know]

Airbnb I stayed at in Macomb 3 months back had the Macombopoly board game. Founder of Monopoly had ties to Macomb IIRC.

[ST_Lawson]

Airbnb I stayed at in Macomb 3 months back had the Macombopoly board game. Founder of Monopoly had ties to Macomb IIRC.

 

Yes, Lizzie Magie, who invented the Landlord's Game, which eventually became Monopoly, was born in Macomb and grew up here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie