Kirkland, IL  60146

Picture by:  Robin Burger

Date taken:  12/18/02

Right on Route 72.  I stopped and took the picture, and off course as I am pulling up to stop for the school crosswalks, the police stop me.  He checks my license and registration, and is hesitant so I look at him, and say 'you want to know why I took the picture of the post office?'.  He looked so relieved when I brought it up, so I smiled and gave him the web-site for postal galleries and told him about it.  He then told me of a guy that was taking pictures of the Byron Nuclear plant, and that there was a police hunt for the guy that was taking the pictures.  I told him some more about Jim and the web site and then I picked up the maps that I was using to find the post offices, and asked where the post office in Fairdale was.  He explained that Fairdale didn't have a post office anymore, and that Kirkland was the post office that provided service for them.  I also asked where Kingston, Genoa, and Hampshire post offices were and he told me!!!