Names make sense in Illinois

Springfield, Illinois has two capitol buildings. Two, you ask? Yep. Two. But they're only using the bigger one currently. This one is the Old Capitol Building. (Duh, huh? Creative name [note a hint of witty sarcasm] - but it works. At least you know what it is without knowing any more than the building's name.)

When Illinois outgrew the Old Capitol Building, the current one was built.

The Illinois State Capitol Building sits on a large parcel of land in the middle of Springfield at the end of Capitol Avenue (would it be on any other street?). Illinois' State Library is housed in a separate building across the street from and northeast of the Capitol Building.

The Supreme Court also gets its own building and sits on the other corner across from the Capitol and Library.

And if you walk down Capitol Avenue to the East and look back at the Illinois State Capitol in early November, you'll see something like this:

And this is good. Very good indeed.