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MCC trips to include 'gangsta tour' and fall colors

Join McHenry County College's Trips and Tours program on two upcoming fall trips, including a Chicago gangster tour on Sept. 30 and a North Freedom Fall Color train in Wisconsin on Oct. 8.

The Chicago Gangster Tour will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, and will feature the colorful gangster-era history of Chicago in the 1920s, when men with names like Scarface and Babyface ruled the streets. Your motor coach will be captured by a "gangster" who will "take you for a ride" through some of the neighborhoods where the good old boys ruled Chicago during the jazz age of prohibition. See where the hot spots and hit spots were and hear about Capone, Dillinger, Moran and others. Learn about Chicago's corruption, social upheaval and political intrigue. At Holy Name Cathedral, see where a gangland shootout took place in 1926 outside on the street and bullets chipped the cornerstone. Lunch is included at Pompei, located in Little Italy. Cost is $79. Use course code NST S77 001 when registering.

North Freedom Fall Color Train will take place from 7:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, and features a morning stop at Clasen's European Bakery for samples on-site and purchases on your own. Lunch is included at a historic old flouring mill turned restaurant, The Old Feed Mill. Enjoy "leaf-peeping" in Rural Sauk County for a 7-mile, 55-minute, round-trip ride over a 111-year-old former branch line of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Cost is $89. Use course code NST S75 001 when registering.

To register, call the MCC Registration Office at (815) 455-8588 or register online at www.mchenry.edu/myMCC.

For more information, call Claudia Terrones at (815) 455-8782 or Renee Erling at (815) 455-8759.

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