To mark Centralia’s 150th anniversary two years ago, community leaders installed a big metal sign on the rooftop of the historic Frost Building. It declares: “Centralia Your Opportunity.” The sign, which overlooks the old Illinois Central railroad tracks, is a replica of one erected in the 1920s by the local Rotary Club and taken down […]
Mary Rickard
Mary Rickard is a graduate student in journalism
at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
and a freelance writer.
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Code red
David Gill, an emergency physician at Dr. John Warner Hospital in Clinton, often tells the story of a 73-year-old woman with a throat so swollen that she could hardly breathe. Suffering from an allergic reaction, the elderly woman put off seeking medical attention for five hours, afraid of the medical bills she might incur. Only […]
