Bennigans Grill at the Hilton Hotel, Springfield IL

Our next overnight stop after Chicago was in Springfield, Illinois.  We were assured by our tour director that this is not the Simpsons home town, and that in fact, there are lots of towns named Springfield in the US. 

Our hotel was the Hilton, and being a Sunday night, the best choice was to eat in the hotel at Bennigans Grill.  There was a table of lawyers right next door to us - I knew they were lawyers because they were earnestly talking about the Bar Association.

Tim and I both started off with Buds - Tim with the traditional version, me a Bud Light. 

For dinner, I ordered the Guinness Glazed Bacon Cheeseburger pictured at the top of this post - Guinness stout glaze, bacon, cheese and crispy fried onions.  It was pretty good.  I also ordered a ubiquitous garden salad:

 

 

However, the highlight of the dinner, and Tim's favourite dish from the whole trip, was the Pecan Bread and Butter Pudding (which we shared):

Think a buttery warm cinnamon roll dripping with caramel sauce and topped with vanilla icecream - OMG.  This was definitely not diet food but boy it was good.

I also want to give a shout out to Moxie Massage, situated near our hotel.  I had managed to hurt my back early on in the trip, and a wonderful lady at Moxie Massage agreed to see me at 8pm on a Sunday night for a remedial massage.  She saved me.  Thanks a bunch!!!

Springfield was the home of Abraham Lincoln before he became president, so while we were in Springfield, we visited Lincoln's home:

Being a lawyer, I was keenly interested in the table where he used to work on cases in the living room:

Springfield is also the home of the Illinois State Capitol:

The Abraham Lincoln presence is everywhere - there is even an Abraham Lincoln totem pole near the courthouse:

We also visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum (we didn't get time to go to the library, in a separate building).  I was fascinated by a series of photographs showing Lincoln's rapid physical decline over the course of his presidency.

I really enjoyed our brief visit to Springfield - it is a nice place.

Bennigans Grill at The Hilton
700 East Adams Street

Springfield, Illinois US

Ph: +1 217 789 1530