At simply over 2 foursquare miles in addition to with less than three ,000 inhabitants , the town of Casey inwards Illinois mightiness go with the smaller towns of the U.S. , but it's habitation to about of the biggest things inwards the world. These include a air current chime , a rocking chair , knitting needles in addition to a crochet claw , a mailbox , a pitchfork , a golf game tee , a brace of wooden shoes , a money , a birdcage , a yardstick , a pencil , a ear of corn , saguaro cactus in addition to many more. Eight of these bring flora house inwards the Guinness Book of World Records. Behind all these large attractions is a unmarried homo —local homo of affairs Jim Bolin.
Bolin is the vice president of Bolin Enterprises Inc. , which started out equally a pocket-size pigment in addition to torso store operating out of his describe of piece of occupation solid unit of measurement garage. Today it employs 240 people in addition to does crude in addition to natural gas pipeline maintenance operate across close one-half the country. But non all businesses inwards Casey shared Bolin’s success. Over the years Bolin watched several Casey businesses unopen store — a shoe mill , a tools in addition to manufacturing store , a hardware store , a feed store. When the recession striking inwards the belatedly 2000s , fifty-fifty Bolin started to experience the crunch. That’s when he decided that he needed to boost tourism to the town to assistance the local economy.
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