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History | Thursday, April 14,2011
{after 1st article on article listing} Pioneer life here was hard on women and animals
Author of Sugar Creek speaks in Springfield April 26
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Sangamon County Historical Society is having an author of books about early American history, including one about our area, come to Springfield and speak on Apri
History | Thursday, March 31,2011
When Springfield went to the dogs
In the middle 1800s, animal control in Springfield, like much of America, was an oxymoron. Cows, hogs and especially dogs roamed the streets and wreaked a variety of havoc, from destroying sidewalks a
History | Thursday, February 24,2011
When Valentine’s Day gangsters cooled off in Springfield. Or not.
Eighty-two years ago, Chicago mobsters were lying low in Springfield, escaping fallout from the brutal St. Valentine’s Day massacre gang slaying in their hometown.Or maybe they weren’t. It
History | Thursday, February 3,2011
The Lincoln Museum at Lincoln
A small, no-frills place to see quality artifacts up close
Not all Lincoln museums are alike. Compare, for example, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield and the Lincoln Heritage Museum in Lincoln.While the ALPLM uses stat
History | Thursday, December 9,2010
Chocolate cockroaches, a 19th-century treat
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…The children were nestled, all snug in their bedsWhile visions of cockroaches dan
History | Wednesday, November 24,2010
Thanksgiving in Springfield, 100 years ago
If we could go back 100 years to Thanksgiving in 1910, we might be surprised at the similarities and differences. As usual, the president gave a Thanksgiving proclamation. President William H. Taft ex
History | Thursday, October 21,2010
When slaves were sold at auction in Springfield
You can’t help but wonder what Abraham Lincoln would have thought if he’d witnessed the public auction here of two slave girls in July, 1827. Even though the event occurred 10 years before
History | Thursday, September 9,2010
When central Illinois was king of ceramics and pottery
We may be the land of Lincoln and prairies, but at one time we were the land of pottery, too. Greene County is celebrating that fact during its Greene County Days next weekend.Illinois was a major pla
History | Thursday, August 12,2010
Fighting like crazy
A courageous woman’s assault on insane asylums
On June 18, 1860, Elizabeth Packard, a mother of six and wife of a Calvinist minister in Manteno, Ill., was carried from her home and admitted to the Illinois Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville a
History | Thursday, July 29,2010
The makeup of yesteryear
Whale oil, raw beef and other 19th century beauty secrets
I recently learned a new reason why I’m glad I didn’t live in the 1800s — 19th century cosmetics.I became enlightened about this topic after attending an interesting 3˝-hour seminar
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