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Don’t get caught on a Friday with no plans, here are five things to do around Springfield this weekend. More: Downtown Springfield bar getting a face-lift. Here's what customers can expect to see
Here are some festivals happening this weekend. Cider Days in Springfield. Springfield's 26th annual Cider Days street festival is Saturday, Sept. 21, and Sunday, Sept. 22, along Historic Walnut ...
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The newspaper was founded in 1831 as the Sangamo Journal by William Bailhache and Edward Baker, and describes itself as "the oldest newspaper in Illinois". As such, it and its editor, Edward L. Baker, supported the political career of the Springfield-based Abraham Lincoln in the years before the American Civil War; in fact, it was in the Journal ' s office that Lincoln and his friends waited ...
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The Old Capitol Art Fair was first celebrated in 1962. It has been held continuously on the lawn of and in the streets surrounding Springfield's Old State Capitol, except when the historic 1837 building was being reconstructed in 1966-70. [1] The fair is known for the Children's Tent, a Springfield innovation.
The track is host to two of the older memorial events in the United States, the Bettenhausen 100 for the USAC dirt championship cars, first run in 1961 and the Allen Crowe Memorial 100 stock car event for USAC, now ARCA, stock cars, first held in 1963. Both races are now held on the last weekend of the Illinois State Fair.
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