fiftycapitols

One week into his cross-country trip to visit 50 state capitols in 50 days, Mickey Straub felt deflated. The inspirational author and management consultant thought to himself, “This trip is silly, as he munched on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich out of the trunk of his 1997 Lincoln Town Car. Straub was in Annapolis, Maryland, 800-plus miles from home in Illinois. It was September 2012 and Barack Obama was running for a second term […]

A suburban mayor’s effort to recite Lincoln’s Gettysburg address at 50 state capitols in 50 days is now part of the Congressional Record. U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam of Wheaton presented Burr Ridge Mayor Mickey Straub last week with the laminated text of the remarks the congressman made on the House floor about Straub’s accomplishment. Straub drove 15,000 miles to 48 state capitols and flew to those in Hawaii and Alaska between Sept. 4 and Oct. […]

Burr Ridge Mayor Mickey’s Straub’s 50 Capitols trip is now a piece of American history. U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam, a Wheaton Republican, recently entered information about Straub’s 2012 patriotic pilgrimage to honor President Abraham Lincoln into the Congressional Record. Roskam was at the Village Board meeting April 10 to laud Straub for his efforts and to present him with a laminated copy of what the Wheaton congressman said on the House floor. Straub drove to 48 […]

For our first guest, we are joined by our very own Dave Schwan who shares with us his National Parks series as apart of the 100th anniversary of the National Parks System. Then, Burr Ridge Mayor Mickey Straub joins Rick in studio. The mayor is author of the book “50 Capitols in 50 Days, Big Goals/Short Deadlines” and is the first person ever to recite the Gettysburg Address at all 50 state capitols. He tell […]

As seen in Hinsdale Magazine’s February 2014 issue. Last fall, Mickey Straub was elected mayor of Burr Ridge. But what he did the previous fall was an even more impressive accomplishment, travel to 50 States in 50 days. The youngest of six, Mickey Staub grew up in Pennsylvania, the state which President Lincoln recited the Gettysburg Address. Read full article

It’s not often one comes across a person who has a real adventure story to tell. But that’s exactly what happened to me. I had the pleasure of meeting a man who felt a calling to spread a patriotic message across the country and to revive the words of Abraham Lincoln. And so the adventure began: visiting all 50 state capitol buildings in 50 days. Mickey Straub is his name. He’s 55 years old and […]