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BICENTENNIAL 2018: Gray’s legacy leaves a bridge to the future for southern Illinois

BICENTENNIAL 2018: Gray’s legacy leaves a bridge to the future for southern Illinois

— December 13, 2018

In 1956, a little-known freshman congressman from Franklin County in southern Illinois gave his first major speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, receiving a standing…

  • BICENTENNIAL 2018: Illinois boasts a hair-raising history of beasts and legends

    BICENTENNIAL 2018: Illinois boasts a hair-raising history of beasts and legends

    — December 6, 2018

    Illinois boasts a hair-raising history rife with spine-tingling stories — and that’s just with politics. Otherwise, the state’s heritage brims with tall tales of mythic beasts,…

  • BICENTENNIAL 2018: 8 films you didn’t know were filmed in Illinois

    BICENTENNIAL 2018: 8 films you didn’t know were filmed in Illinois

    — November 21, 2018

    Maybe Illinois has produced so many cool movies because it offers such a vastly diverse spectrum of locations to tell highly visual stories. Or maybe our state has pumped out impressive…

  • BICENTENNIAL 2018: Illinois sent more than 350,000 soldiers to Europe during World War I

    BICENTENNIAL 2018: Illinois sent more than 350,000 soldiers to Europe during World War I

    — November 8, 2018

    Artie Bennett, a Marine from Clinton, was cut down by a hail of bullets 100 years ago in a far-flung foreign field, giving his life for his country in America’s first global war….

  • BICENTENNIAL 2018: Saukenuk was once home to Black Hawk and more than 6,000 Sauk

    BICENTENNIAL 2018: Saukenuk was once home to Black Hawk and more than 6,000 Sauk

    — October 26, 2018

    Saukenuk was well-known as one of the largest Native American villages in North America, but one of its residents, the warrior Black Hawk, was even better known. Although born in Saukenuk,…

  • BICENTENNIAL 2018: How the University of Illinois wound up in Champaign-Urbana

    BICENTENNIAL 2018: How the University of Illinois wound up in Champaign-Urbana

    — November 29, 2018

    Champaign-Urbana owes its prominence to the University of Illinois, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign owes its existence to Clark Robinson Griggs. If it hadn’t been…

  • BICENTENNIAL 2018: Barack Obama’s political career in Illinois helped shape his presidency

    BICENTENNIAL 2018: Barack Obama’s political career in Illinois helped shape his presidency

    — November 15, 2018

    A decade ago, he claimed victory in the presidential campaign from Grant Park in Chicago. He announced his run — and later his running mate — on ground trod by Abraham Lincoln at…

  • BICENTENNIAL 2018: Chicago is known for Capone, but Illinois gangsters had much wider reach

    BICENTENNIAL 2018: Chicago is known for Capone, but Illinois gangsters had much wider reach

    — November 1, 2018

    When it came to organized crime in Illinois, Chicago-based Prohibition-era gangsters loomed large during the 1920s and 1930s. Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Lester “Baby Face Nelson” Gillis,…

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