I live in Illinois about 60 miles west of Chgo....and stores around here open at 9am, banks at 7am-drive up......so to have all the stores in their downtown area including the museum open at 10am was a bit strange for us, I don't know about Starbuck's-don't go there.

Just came back from Paducah. Tured the Quilt museum, shopped at Elwanor Burns Quilt in a Day shop ( all fabric is $5 yd) and Hancocks of Paducah (yes they are a little high, but lots of good fabric). Also went antiquing and found a shop owner wanting to take my FW's to sell during the April show for me. She gets higher prices than I can sell here due to the annual show.

Fort Masaac state park in Metropolis IL ( across the river from Paducah, about 15 minutes away) has camp sites.

I drove last year and did not really have any issues.

In Texas, most retail stores open at 10:00am. That would go for museums too. Grocery stores are either 24 hr. or open at 8:00am. Hardware stores open at 8:00am. In all the places I have lived, I have never seen clothing stores, fabric stores, shoe stores, etc. stay open 24 hrs. Guess that would be handy for some people, just never seen it.

Thanks for all the tips on campgrounds.

there is a campground on Husbands Rd. in paducah ,this is exit 11 if you are on I-24.