Illinois quick hits: Unemployment rate unchanged; no threat after airport evacuated
Unemployment rate unchanged The Illinois Department of Employment Security announced that nonfarm payrolls were almost ...
New book reinforces Lincoln was an abolitionist long before his presidency
The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...
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Lincoln's New Salem is 'deteriorating,' needs revitalization. A plan is being proposed
Critics are warning that without swift intervention, "we risk losing these historical assets" at Lincoln's New Salem site.
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Long-neglected state-owned sites in Illinois eyed for development under Pritzker proposal
Gov. JB Pritzker's 2026 budget proposal includes $300 million for a first-of-its-kind "Surplus to Success" program that would ...
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Sculptor Preston Jackson to speak at ALPLM about fellow artist Richard Hunt
Jackson will be interviewed by Ross Stanton Jordan, curator of the ALPLM’s “Freedom in Form” exhibition. At 2 p.m. the same ...
‘Righteous Strife’ Review: Calling Heaven to the Union’s Cause
Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...
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McClure, Rosenthal tour damage at Lincoln's New Salem, urge action for critical investments
As state lawmakers work in the Capitol this spring, buildings and bridges at the historic Lincoln's New Salem site continue to fall apart.
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New book reinforces Lincoln was an abolitionist long before his presidency
Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years ...