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African-American history museum opens with photo exhibitThe makeup of yesteryearThe Lincolns’ first home in IllinoisWhen Valentine’s Day gangsters cooled off in Springfield. Or not.Springfield’s riot in contextThe ‘Angry Atheist of Champaign’Civil War POW protests monument to a ‘monster’LegacyPioneer life here was hard on women and animalsAn Illinois artist’s amazing life after death
History | Thursday, July 12,2012
Lithuanians in Springfield
New historical marker commemorates the heritage of a proud community
The placing of a church cornerstone is an act of faith. For the founders of Springfield’s St. Vincent de Paul Lithuanian Catholic Church it was an act of survival. Exiled from their tiny homelan
History | Thursday, June 21,2012
When Lincoln’s friend was killed just as war began
The Civil War was only five weeks old when Col. Elmer Ellsworth, 24, was killed tearing down a Confederate flag in Virginia. As the first prominent Union casualty, he became an instant hero: newspaper
History | Thursday, May 10,2012
Springfield history in old newspaper photos
It’s like a long forgotten, 80-year-old scrapbook of our city. It shows a bustling downtown crowded with men wearing fedoras and women in fur coats, a family brewery preparing for the onslaught
History | Thursday, April 12,2012
Lincoln, the tax-and-spend president
Tax Day is just days away. Nationally, April 15 is significant because that’s the traditional day when tax returns are due. This year we get a two-day extension, to April 17. Perhaps more locall
History | Thursday, April 5,2012
Illinois’ first black legislator
From Slave to State Legislator: John W.E. Thomas, Illinois’ First African American Lawmaker, by David A. Joens. Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 288 pages, $34.95.In 1877, Illinois beca
History | Thursday, February 23,2012
African-American history museum opens with photo exhibit
The Springfield Illinois African-American History Foundation’s museum opens its first exhibition tonight, Feb. 23, capping 14 years of work. The exhibition will feature photographs by Eddie Winf
History | Thursday, January 26,2012
The man behind Sears’ success got his start here
Springfield is known as the home of Abraham Lincoln, but a man from Lincoln’s neighborhood gets short shrift in our city’s legacy. Julius Rosenwald was born a block from Lincoln’s ho
History | Thursday, December 15,2011
A soldier’s Christmas in the Civil War
Since this year marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War’s beginning, it seems appropriate to look back at how some of those soldiers spent their holidays. We begin with the accounts of two m
History | Thursday, November 10,2011
Acorn-planting day at Lincoln Memorial Garden
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If one acorn can create a thousand forests, Springfield’s Harriet Knudson had enough acorns in 1936
History | Thursday, October 6,2011
Losing her mind, the movie
Springfield filmmaker captures a disturbing play, The Yellow Wallpaper, on video
One of the best theater tickets in town over the last couple of years was to Springfield actor Aasne Vigesaa’s performance of The Yellow Wallpaper at the Vachel Lindsay home, directed by Kevin P
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