Highway 36 and the I-72 into Illinois are a fairly unexciting 300 or so mile blatt east. It's just good to be clocking-up some miles again.
Welcome (back) to Illinois.
I forgot to mention that the Riviera clocked-up 81,000 on the way up into Las Vegas, and 82,000 on the way down into Denver.
Riviera at 83,000.
On arrival in Springfield a Drury Inn is the destination. They are, as you'll know if read earlier entries, one of my favourites. Not the cheapest, but I do like the way that everything works as it should.