Known as the "divorce colony" and the "divorce mill," Sioux Falls also attracted lawyers, businesses, newspaper reporters, and national publicity as a result of South Dakota's easy divorce laws. Download PDFs of articles from the first 43 years and obtain recent issues of South Dakota History at /journal.Īt the close of the nineteenth century, many people who wanted a "quickie" divorce traveled not to Reno or Las Vegas, Nevada, but to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Members support the Society's important mission of interpreting, preserving and transmitting the unique heritage of South Dakota. Membership in the South Dakota State Historical Society includes a subscription to the journal. South Dakota History is the quarterly journal published by the South Dakota State Historical Society. South Dakota History, volume 20 number 3 (2002) Historic villages in northern Illinois are rounding up their own Wild West Shows among summer programs that recapture frontier life.Money Versus Morality: The Divorce Industry of Sioux Falls Admission $7 for adults, $6 for children. (the restaurant remains open after hours), weekends only in April, May, September and October. Open daily Memorial Day through Labor Day, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. All are close to Wild West Town, located on South Union Road 4 1/2 miles west of the Interstate Highway 90 exit at U.S. The railway museum features restored railroad cars and locomotives and some of Chicago's old transit cars. Antiques throughout the town come from their collection started when the family owned a gas station in Berwyn, says Mike Donley.Īlthough only 650 people live in Union, the population soars with tourists visiting the antique stores, McHenry County Historical Society Museum and the Illinois Railway Museum. Wild West Town is a family-run business operated by Larry and Helene Donley and their sons Michael and Randy. On the Street of Yesteryear, the gun shop proudly displays Winchester rifles, the toy shop is filled with train sets and other walk-by storefronts include a telegraph office, lamp shop and doctor's office of a lost era.
The main building brings back the past with a museum devoted to frontier life, Native Americans, the Civil War and other 19th Century history.
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