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The hiking event is a 90-minute event hosted by the Springfield State Historic Sites and the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum. ... State Journal-Register: Here are ...
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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Illinois' first African American newspaper was the Cairo Weekly Gazette, established in 1862. [1] The first in Chicago was The Chicago Conservator , established in 1878. An estimated 190 Black newspapers had been founded in Illinois by 1975, [ 2 ] and more have continued to be established in the decades since.
The NAACP of Springfield is hosting its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day March at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15.
In May 2004, the Illinois House voted, 94–18, to close the Stratton Building, [6] but the bill was not called for a vote in the Illinois Senate. The building is also often the subject of articles in the Springfield State Journal-Register about its lights being on nearly around the clock, despite the absence of employees working in the ...
Kolanowski is a full-time student at the University of Illinois Springfield where she studies history, which works hand in hand with her understanding of how art can portray feelings but also teach.
The Beacon-News – Aurora; Belleville News-Democrat – Belleville; Belvidere Daily Republican – Belvidere; The Benton Evening News – Benton; The Breeze-Courier – Taylorville ...