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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Current Illinois flag wins state flag redesign vote
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois state flag may be around a lot longer, it turns out. About 43% of the 385,000 votes in an ...
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 ...