Illinois's Route 66 giants include Harley Man in Livingston, repainted in 2010 as a tribute to Harley Davidson after once wearing a dark blue button-up shirt with a "Hank" name patch and gray trousers indoors; Left Field Louie in Joliet, which emitted smoke, jackhammer sounds, strobes, and stoplights after Joliet JackHammers home runs until it was taken down in 2011 when the team became the Slammers; the Bunyon Giant in Atlanta, originally at Hamlet Stephens' meat-focused drive-in restaurant in Cicero for nearly 40 years before moving to Arch St. in Atlanta in 2003 on forever loan from the Stephens family; the Gemini Giant in Wilmington, a 24-foot-tall astronaut bought by John Korelc for $3,500 in 1965 for his Launching Pad drive-in restaurant and the only known survivor of at least three made from the same mold by International Fiberglass; Southeast Spartan in Springfield, a donated Carpet Viking modified into a Mediterranean warrior and Southeast High School mascot by removing braids and horns, repainting it, and adding a sword; the Guardian in Evergreen Park, once atop an auto body repair shop with a shiny candy apple red shirt and metallic auto body paint pants and at one time holding a large hockey stick for the Chicago Blackhawks; the Lauterbach Man in Springfield, first purchased in 1961, moved several times, standing in its current role with a flag since 1978, and repaired after losing its head in a 2006 tornado; Frankenmuffler Man in Burbank, a heavily modified Frankenstein's Monster figure towering over Haunted Trails miniature golf course and batting cage since at least 1977; Uniroyal Gal in Livingston, a rare fiberglass giantess reported at a mini golf in Chincoteague, Virginia, in the 1980s, then moved to Kingsville, Maryland, in the 90s, and to Illinois in 2015 before restoration in 2017; Carl's Soda Jerk in Normal, a 15-foot-tall Muffler Man modeled after an original International Fiberglass version and made by Virginia fiberglass artist Mark Cline of Enchanted Castle Studios; and the Brave of Pulaski Rd in Chicago, a much-modified, barrel-chested caricature of a Native American male remembered especially for its glasses and piercing eyes.
