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Frank P. Sadler, Illinois state senator and lawyer, born in Springfield [15] Paul Simon, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate, served in the Illinois State legislature from 1955 to 1968, served as Illinois Lt. Governor from 1969 to 1973, taught at Sangamon State University (now UIS) from 1973 to 1975 [16] Father of Illinois Lt. Governor ...
Gregory K. Scott (c. 1949–2021), Colorado Supreme Court justice; Greg Scott (American football) (born 1979), former American football defensive end; Greg Scott (ice hockey) (born 1988), Canadian ice hockey right winger; Greg Scott (politician), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2023 – present) Greg Scott (rugby league ...
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 ...
A 23-year-old Springfield man who was found stabbed inside a vehicle by Springfield Police in the 2500 block of North Grand Avenue East Saturday morning later died at HSHS St. John's Hospital.
Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the seat of Sangamon County.The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.
Springfield Police confirmed the stabbing death of a 51-year-old woman at a house on Shadow Fax Drive in the Twin Lakes subdivision on the city's northside early on June 29, 2024.
The Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Central Illinois, anchored by the city of Springfield. As of the 2000 census , the MSA had a population of 201,437 (though a July 1, 2009 estimate placed the population at 208,182).
Malcom Gregory Scott (born January 26, 1962) also known as Greg Scott, is an American writer, activist, and AIDS survivor. In 1987, the United States Navy (USN) discharged him for homosexuality, after which Scott worked to overturn the Department of Defense (DoD) directive prohibiting the military service of lesbian and gay Americans. [ 1 ]