From the earliest of times, people have thought, worried or even obsessed about the way they will be remembered. Some have attempted to build monuments or ornate gravestones; others have been satisfied with more modest means of leaving their marks on this earth. A visitor to the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign might be […]
Dave Koltun
Dave Koltun has spent most of his life in Springfield and central Illinois. He has worked in academia as a political-science professor, in politics as a campaign-management consultant and in state government as a manager of data and evaluation. Since taking early retirement
in 2003, he has focused on one of his true
passions, historical trivia. A former trivia
champion at the University of Illinois,
Koltun believes that trivia should have a twist
to it rather than being limited to a
regurgitation of facts.
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The Sucker State?
For years, Illinois has been known as the Prairie State or the Land of Lincoln. The former moniker reflects the state’s topography, dominated by flat, fertile land that was once covered by prairie grasses. References to Illinois as the Prairie State date back to the 1840s, so this is a well-established nickname. On the other […]
