I used to have to go back to Wisconsin a lot to visit my parents who were both in and out of hospitals for the last years of their lives for a variety of reasons. After a while, I started renting a car and went on mini road trips since there was so much of that area that I had never seen before. I saw quite a bit of the midwest this way and it was a way to balance the time that I had to spend with chronically ill family.
Galena was a cute victorian city and I liked it there very much. June, 2008 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena,_Illinois