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Chill Out in Downstate Illinois: 6 Essential Ice Cream Spots

Chill Out in Downstate Illinois: 6 Essential Ice Cream Spots

Posted on 07/08/2024 by Emily Kuth

Western:

The Sweet Creamery - Belleville

 Sweet Creamery is an ice cream shop designed to make customers happy! They have a floral wall, swing, and angel wings – making it the perfect place to enjoy a sweet treat and take a photo. Sweet Creamery's menu consists of more than just ice cream. They offer desserts such as crepes, cupcakes, cheesecakes, cookies, bubble waffles, waffle towers, milkshakes, and much more. The owner started baking for her family and tweaked online recipes to make them her own. So come and get a sweet treat from Sweet Creamery!

Oh, Sugar Ice & Cream - Waterloo

With a passion for creating everything sweet, this delightful ice cream shop proudly offers a variety of ice cream flavors such as Door County Cherry, Cookie Dough, Mint Avalanche, Rainbow Sherbet, and even Italian ice flavors such as passionfruit. Oh, Sugar Ice & Cream has indoor and outdoor seating areas making it the perfect place to spend time with friends and family on a summer evening.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Central:

Arctic Cow - Centralia

The Arctic Cow is a treat! Their ice cream menu includes flavors such as Andes mint, banana cream, brownie batter brownie, cake batter, cookie monster, cotton candy, etc. They also have Italian ice flavors such as Cherry ice, mango ice, and orange Italian ice. So come on in and try one of their delicious scoops of ice cream – or get an entire flight. 

Bianco’s Ice Cream Shop - DuQuion

In the middle of historic downtown DuQuion, Bianco’s Ice Cream Shop is a family-owned coffee shop with a menu that includes ice cream, cake cones, waffle cones, and ice cream sandwiches. Bianco’s has an indoor and outdoor sitting area to enjoy your ice cream. They also do holiday specials with their ice cream, such as their holiday apple crisp with a scoop of ice cream. Yum!

Eastern:

Higgson Farms Mercantile - Carmi

A small-town farmer in McLeansboro took their passion for producing the best farm-to-table products and now sells delicious milkshakes. Their company has experienced so much growth that they opened a second location in Carmi IL. Higgson Farms provides customers with the freshest local products and gift items. You can also book their farm for events or parties, and ice cream flavors include fruit pebbles, strawberry, mint chocolate chip, birthday cake, superman, and butter pecan.  

 

Dairy Dee - Sumner

Starting in 1974, founder Clifford Brian opened a soft-serve ice cream shop next to the service station where he worked for many years. Today, longtime residents of Sumner and current owners, Eldon and Janice Scherer, continue to grow the business. The ice cream menu includes cones, dishes, waffle cones and bowls, sundaes, shakes, malts, and floats. They have a porch where you can catch up with friends over a sweet treat.



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