Fall Guide | Thursday, August 26,2010

Surprising Greenville

Visit the fun and quirky DeMoulin Museum

About an hour and a half south of Springfield, meandering down highway 127 to where it intersects Interstate 70, is the town of Greenville. According to the town fathers it has been hailed as “a

Fall Guide | Thursday, August 26,2010

Fall classical fare

The season offers plenty of fine listening in central Illinois

By Job Conger

Classical music is reaping rewards for listeners and practitioners alike in the 21st century, thanks to ease of accessibility provided to concert planners and fans. Increasingly part of “classic

Fall Guide | Thursday, August 26,2010

Rock fall ahead

Concerts and music fests from central Illinois to St. Louis

By Matthew Schroyer

Normally, as autumn goes in the Midwest, things begin to cool off, but that isn’t so with live music. This fall has a number of options within an afternoon’s drive from Springfield, and th

Fall Guide | Thursday, August 26,2010

Hundreds of Lincoln places

What to do and where to go in the old Eighth Judicial Circuit

By Julie Cellini

A recent estimate by the Abraham Lincoln Association puts the number of distinct titles about Lincoln at 17,000. Add another hundred or so generated by the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial, and Lincoln may i