Springfield
I wanted to take a moment and respond to a recent letter to the editor. I’m a firm believer of the first amendment, having sworn numerous times to defend it (with my life, if necessary) during my military and public service career. Those who choose to exercise their first amendment rights should, at a minimum,…
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Pillsbury opened its milling operation in Springfield in 1929 and employed 1500 workers in 1950. In 1991, Pillsbury sold the plant to Cargill, who operated it from 1991 to 2001, before selling it for scrap in 2008. The City of Springfield has been trying to repurpose the facility for two decades. Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips…
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Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips take you to Edwards Place in this month’s Muddy River Gems. Edwards Place, built in 1833 and remodeled in 1857, is an historic house museum that tells the story of social and domestic life in Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield, Illinois. Restored to its antebellum glory, this Italianate mansion was one a center…
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I began playing Strat-O-Matic in 1979 at age 12 (feel free to do the math on where that puts me today). My friends and I have always referred to it as “Strat” and others across the country call it “S-O-M”. I’ll use “Strat” for the purpose of today’s piece. The Strat board game is a…
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Michael Madigan didn’t control Springfield in 2021. For the first time in decades, Illinois got a new House speaker and the Democratic Party of Illinois got a new chairman as Madigan fell from power. Critics say little has changed at the state capitol, however. Since 1983, Madigan, D-Chicago, had been speaker of the Illinois House…
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To mark October as Manufacturing Month, state officials Wednesday touted the thousands of manufacturing jobs in Illinois, but an industry official paints a different picture. State officials celebrated the 40th new manufacturing announcement this year in Illinois, with news that a magnesium casting plant in Dixmoor is expanding, adding 40 jobs. Chicago Magnesium Casting Co.,…
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