As the sun was slowly setting on the final day of the trip, the Random Road Trippers had two destinations left. As they pulled off the freeway, for a second it looked like they had somehow been transported to Italy, but the FIB heckling the Arizona license plates on Beet's car quickly made it clear that this Leaning Tower of Pisa was located in Chicago. Well techincally it is the Leaning Tower of Niles, located in Niles, IL, but who can keep all of those northern suburbs straight?
At half of the size of it's more famous Italian relative, the Tower of Niles was orginally constructed in 1934 to hold water for the recreational pools built for the Ilg Hot Air Electric Ventilating Company of Chicago. Soon after it was donated to their local YMCA, who now maintains it.
After the valiant effort to straighten the tower failed, the road trippers decided to tempt the heart attack fairy one more time by heading to one of the great deep-dish pizzerias in Chicago: Lou Malnati's. After eating their fill one last time, the road trippers headed back on the road to Sweet Home Milwaukee!
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