children of the corn maze

Last night on American Idol (yes, you will now endure the next few months with periodic updates. Deal with it), there was a set of sisters from Spring Grove, IL. They boasted that they had the world’s largest corn maze in their town (Google concurs). And, wouldn’t you know it, it is a dedication to the 1985 world chamption Chicago Bears. (“It was 20 years ago today….”)

Man, we wanted to get a good view of that one. Sadly, though, the maze was not up (corn not in season, maybe?) when Google Maps flew over and took its pictures. The official address of the maze is 9407 Richardson Road. It’s all brown. So we just have to take the Richardson people’s word for it (more info). It appears that they change around their maze every year, which is pretty neat.

It turns out that there are a lot of corn mazes in the United States. The most well known of the Victorian garden mazes is probably the one from The Shining (though it doesn’t exist in America). No, in America, we don’t do just shrubbery mazes, we like corn mazes. Like, a lot. There are 2 in Texas, and we don’t even hardly grow corn!

Anyway, the sisters from Spring Grove were good singers, and they made it “to Hollywood”.