I didn’t know what I’d see that Sunday morning on the main street of Benld. Maybe a bank. Or a liquor store. Or two or three dollar stores. I surely did not anticipate a store full of weathered religious statuary.

But that is indeed what was there, one door down from Stan’s Barber Shop and across the street from the Hebenstreit Apartments.

You just never know…

Benld, Illinois
photographed 7.3.2022