Date/Day

  Makhlina, Tatevik (Tanya)
Moscow, Central Region

  Litvinova, Tatyana (Tanya)
Escort

- 11:15AM Village Police Dept,  tour of 911 emergency network, Tanya and Svetlana thrown in jail (haha).

- 11:30AM Arena Auto Auction.
-   1:00PM Lunch with local politicians at Branmors Restaurant

-   3:00PM Fire Dept. tour with demonstration of trained dog finding gasoline and Russian vistitors lifted 103 feet into air on extension ladder fire truck.  Visitors presented with T-shirts and mugs.
-   5:00PM Meijers department store tour. 
Tanya, Sasha and Svetlana learn how to "Shop 'til ya drop"!
 
 
 
 

- 12:30PM Meeting with Michael Tryon, McHenry County Board Chairman and Virginia Peschke, board member.  Explanation of city, county, and state governments.
- 2:00PM Tour of all departments
- 3:00PM Meeting with Sheriff Keith Nygren.  Ravil presented with a star and made an honorary deputy of McHenry County.  Tour of county jail.
- 3:45PM Sat in on a civil trial in progress
- 4:00PM Tour of the health department.
- 5:30PM Aerial tour of McHenry County and Lake Geneva area 
- 8:30PM Dinner at Hackney's Restaurant with relatives.

- 10:45AM Meet at 311 S. Wacker (enter on Wacker, tables below statue) 
- 11:00AM Tour of Sears Tower/Skydeck  by Bolingbrook Village Trustee and Head of Sears Tower Security,  LeRoy Brown.
- 11:45AM Private tour of Sears Tower Security Center via secure freight elevator.
- 12:30PM Lunch at Federal Building.

-   2:00PM Tour of CBOE Trading Floor by Jim Bittman of Chicago Board of Options Exchange.
-   3:30PM Chicago Trolley Tour.  Saw Chicago architecture and 
"Cows on Parade" art exhibit.
-   6:00PM Navy Pier IMAX T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous 3-D movie on 6 story high screen.
 Toured Navy Pier.  Rode on giant 150 foot high ferris wheel.

- 9:00AM Breakfast  with Pastor Royal Speidel and his wife Rita at Cracker Barrel Restaurant
- 3:00PM Interview and Photos of Russian visitors and host families with local newspaper Bolingbrook Sun.
- 4:00PM Park District Tour with Ray Ochromowicz.  Answered questions on reasons for a park district and how it is funded.
- 8:00PM Bolingbrook fireworks display .
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Woodfield Mall Tour 
While enroute, Ravil talked to Vitaly Sherbo, Russian Olympic star, in Russian about how his gymnastic business operates in Las Vegas
- 1:00PM Lunch at Rainforest Cafe
- 2:30PM Mall Tour and "Shop 'til ya drop" part 2.  Russian visitors presented with VIP cases by Maul Security.
- McHenry visitors,  Ravil and Tanya spend night in Bolingbrook with Rich and Lynn Shimkus and Gail Illingworth.

-   9:00AM Attend Dr. Jonathan Ludwig's third year Russian language class.  Visitors presented with U of I tee shirts from the Slavic Dept. 
- 10:00AM Meeting with Dr. Maurice Friedberg, Chair of the Slavic Dept. and Richard Tempest, faculty.  Visitors were again able to converse all in Russian.  Much laughter and discussion among them.
- 11:00AM Meet Lynda Park, Assistant Director of the Russian and East European Center, who has made arrangements for the afternoon.
- 11:15AM Meeting with Michael T. Charles, Professor and Director of the Police Training Institute. Mick is one of two honorary Russian Colonels in the U.S. because of his work in training Russian police officers in democratic policing methods.  Discussion of corruption in Russia and how business leaders can help.
- 12:30PM Meeting with Dr. Mark Steinberg, Professor of history and Director of the Russian and East European Center and Dr. Peter Maggs, Law Professor who worked on the Russian civil code as well as the Armenian, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz codes.  This meeting was again all in Russian and most interesting to our visitors.
-   1:30PM Lunch on the Engineering Campus.
-   2:45PM University of Illinois Bookstore

-   5:00PM Tour of Richard and Jan Miller Hog Farm  in Forrest, IL.  Pork chop dinner

  Chicago Tribune
Aleksandr (Sasha) is a journalist with a political digest in Russia and this was an especially important tour for him.
-   1:00PM Sasha met with volunteer Russian translator Emil Trakhtenberg,  Senior Engineer, Experimental Facilities Div. of Argonne National Laboratory.  Sasha had a private tour of the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center where the newspapers are printed.  He had many questions on printing procedures, collating machines and brands of ink.  He was given names and contacts for ordering newspaper supplies. 
-   2:45PM Sasha sat in on the National Planning Meeting,  accompanied by Tim McNulty,  Foreign Editor of the Chicago Tribune. This meeting was closed to the public.
-   4:00PM Sasha attended the "Page One Meeting" where he saw first-hand the next days front page stories being finalized.
-   9:00PM Back to Householder's in Bolingbrook for dinner by Sylvia Cowsert and a visit with Jain's sister and neice who had just returned from a two year stay in St. Petersburg Russia.