Hi Dennis:
Looking at the map I see you are a farm boy! My dad was raised on a farm in Niles, not that far from where you live. His sister ran a dairy farm there till she was 93. Virtually the whole family is still there. My dad shipped out to the Pacific during WWII through San Francisco and said, "When this thing is over, I'm moving here!" Which is why I live in NorCal instead of MidWest.