Strange Street Signs

Was driving through Oak Park today and I noticed a sign for the continental divide on Chicago Ave about a block east of Oak Park Ave. Doesn't anybody do fact checking before a sign like that is put up. I haven't been in elementary school for quite some time, but I am pretty sure that the continental divide is along the Rocky Mountains. And it is the line that determines the water shed areas for the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean. Any other dividing line might be a local boundary for water shed areas, but I don't think that labeling it as "Continental" is quite accurate.

Has anybody else seen any signs that make no sense?

i was taught the same thing, vorots :)
interesting factoid tho - i think it coincides w/the rise on the west side of 'ridge'land at the north end of town.

Well you learn something new everyday. Always thought that the one in the Rocky's was THE continental divide

THE Continental Divide is out West. People can call this little rise on Ridgeland Avenue a "divide", but it is in no way "continental". Otherwise, an interesting article. But it does repeat a common error. The words "Illini", "Illiniwek", etc. meant "true man" or "true people". The people we call "Illini" called themselves "true people" in order to differentiate themselves from the Miami, Pottawattomi, Fox, and other groups, whom they considered inferior. And the foolish characters jumping around in "Indian" costume during Illinois sports games are not only an insult to Native groups, but not even historically correct. The buckskins, tomahawk, and feather headress correctly belong to the Plains tribes, not the ones from around here.