Many Illinoisans don’t realize it, but our state is a center of aerospace and aviation technology. Illinois’ aerospace cluster is centered around the northern and northeastern …
Editor’s Note: This article is a compilation of multiple stories written by former (Springfield) State Journal-Register reporter Pete Sherman for the special section “Outrage: The…
http://www.illinoispress.org/Downloads/Bicentennial/CahokiaProject.mp4 A gaggle of rambunctious fifth-graders scrambled to the top of the 100-foot-high Monks Mound to get a great…
Illinois may be known as the Land of Lincoln, but it’s another president with Illinois roots who offers lessons to which people today can more easily relate, say officials of Ronald…
Perhaps it is the yearning for yesteryear that endears so many to Route 66. Who wouldn’t want to jump into a classic car and explore the United States, stopping at shiny new service…
FDR used the radio, JFK scored on TV and Donald Trump embraces Twitter. But the first president to make effective use of electronic communications was Abraham Lincoln. His use of the…
The Quad-Cities region has provided a footnote to history for virtually every war fought on American soil, including the Battle of Campbell’s Island – the western-most battle of…
Col. Ulysses S. Grant passed up a chance to have his soldiers ride in train cars. Instead, he thought it best that they march to war. So, on July 3, 1861, Grant mounted a horse and…
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Mom of victim in fatal ...Traci Palucci is struggling to put all her feelings into a victim ...
Democratic leadership gets behind Williamson’s ...Republican Amy Grant, R-47th, was first elected to the state House in ...
