The Journeys Of Abraham Lincoln: From Springfield To Washington, 1861, As President Elect And From Washington To Springfield, 1865, As President Martyred (1865)
Women's Lens (Free subscription) | yesterday
sent by Viviane Paolini A Denver airport shuttle driver from Afghanistan who plotted to blow up subway trains in New York City. A Jordanian who tried to destroy one of Dallas' tallest skyscrapers. An American who thought he was detonating a truck bomb aimed at a federal courthouse in Springfield, Illinois. Law enforcement authorities who successfully stymied these alleged attacks have been
ILLINOIZE (Free subscription) | yesterday
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The Official Site of Grant Miller. (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Justice Department recently proposed moving 100 alleged terrorists from Guantánamo Bay to a vacant prison in Northwest Illinois when the controversial detention facility closes in 2010. As a lifelong Illinoisian , I'd like to welcome these alleged terrorists and jihadists to my home state. I hope your stay is pleasant - though not too pleasant - and provides you with memories to share with...
Thought Mesh (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
There’s always some talk about changing the set of states in the United States. Frequently this involves California or Texas, although sometimes people talk of uniting the Dakotas before they’re empty. But my dream is different. What I would like is to re-arrange the MidWest. We should take the northern eastern quarter of Ilinois and the north western corner of Indiana and make that a...
Madison County Record (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Stack Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack has ordered telephone company AT&T to pay $21,671,857 for mistakes Illinois Bell made eight years ago in distributing $90 million in refunds to business customers. On Nov. 10, Stack placed a price tag on a February order holding AT&T liable for misinterpretation of state law that prescribed the refunds. He ruled that 680,683 business customers...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating June Christy's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY June ChristyJune was born as Shirley Luster on November 20, 1925 at the Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Illinois and was raised from the age of three in Decatur, Illinois; and from the beginning always wanted to sing... more...
Containing Multitudes - American Studies UEA (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
In 1861, 8 year old George Evans Patten was taken to Springfield, Illinois by his father, journalist James Alexander Patten. There, he met the soon-to-be inaugurated Abraham Lincoln. Back at school, he boasted to his schoolmates about this encounter - but none of them believed him. In an effort to curtail their teasing, Patten's teacher wrote to the White House asking for corroboration of the
ILLINOIZE (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Articles of interest to Illinois Republicans recently posted by ABC7, NBC5, CBS2, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Crain's Chicago Business, Daily Herald, Suburban Chicago News, Suburban Life, Pioneer Local, Southtown Star, Rockford Register Star, Bloomington Pantagraph, Peoria Journal Star, Springfield State Journal Register, Belleville News Democrat, Southern Illinoisan, Illinois Review, Public...
Today With President Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Dana Perino, Member, Broadcasting Board of Governors Dana Perino is the Chief Issues Counselor for the United States at Burson-Marsteller and is a Fox News Contributor. She is the former White House Press Secretary to President George W. Bush - the first Republican woman to hold that position. Ms. Perino previously served in the United States Justice Department, was Director of Communications for the...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Supreme Court justices heard arguments today on why ex-governor George Ryan should receive a partial state pension of $60,000. The state General Assembly Retirement System stripped Ryan of the $197,037 pension he was drawing annually up until his 2006 conviction of racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud, making false statements to investigators and tax fraud as governor...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
President's acknowledgement of a meeting with an eight-year-old boy could fetch £36,000 The lesson of history for any small child is that if you are lucky enough to be presented to the future president of the US, then make sure you have evidence of the encounter before bragging about it to your classmates. George Patten, aged eight, discovered the bitter truth of that maxim in 1860 after he...
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D1 Bowling Green has signed Lindsey Butterfield of Springfield, OH. This makes #3 for BGSU this year. Northwestern has signed three players MB Katherine Dutchman of Torrey Pines, CA OH Gaby Gray of Cincinnati Sycamore, OH OH Stephanie Holthus of Burlington Central, IL Penn State has signed five players 6-6 MH Katie Slay of Raleigh, NC 6-0 OH Deja McClendon of Louisville DuPont Manual, KY 6-2 OH Madison...
ILLINOIZE (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Articles of interest to Illinois Republicans recently posted by ABC7, NBC5, CBS2, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Crain's Chicago Business, Daily Herald, Suburban Chicago News, Suburban Life, Pioneer Local, Southtown Star, Rockford Register Star, Bloomington Pantagraph, Peoria Journal Star, Springfield State Journal Register, Belleville News Democrat, Southern Illinoisan, Illinois Review, Public...
Bill Baar's West Side (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
And the GOP poll explaining why Durbin doesn't want a vote. CHICAGO – Less than one-third of Illinois voters support a plan to move terrorists from Gitmo to Thomson, Illinois while 57 percent call it a “bad idea,” according to a survey released today by We Ask America, a division of Xpress Professional Services, Inc. of Springfield, Illinois. According to the overnight survey of 1,791...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
University of Illinois at Springfield (Isa.5:20) Different than the morning after pill or Plan B, Planned Parenthood now has available at most locations the Abortion Pill, also known as mifepristone. According to Planned Parenthood's website, this new pill is considered...
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