I have slept at a rest stop before and I don't recommend it if you don't have to. That one was not in Illinois which is fortunate because the law about whether or not Illinois thinks that is OK is very complicated.
Warren Nutter would pass away in prison after serving 65 years making him the longest serving prisoner in Iowa at this time. It is actually very close to Francis Clifford Smith who actually survived his life sentence.
Every year in Illinois a group of daring motorists try to inject some personality onto their vanity license plates, but many of them are rejected by the state.