Every state has a "state flower", a "state bird" but what a lot of folks don't realize, there is a "state cheese" too.
In Illinois, the land of drink'n, wait ... that was Lincoln, the state cheese is "dick cheese". I think and could be wrong but it was named after a Senator there. I hear that it's really stinky and something only a skank hooker would try to swallow.
I think the writers at the Trib were having their summer cheese-fest when they came up with this gem.