House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch is claiming that he neither hit a woman nor was arrested in a 2002 incident. The speaker’s claims are contradicted by police reports and by a 2012 opinion from the...
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The Lincoln Home National Historic Site may soon be larger and tell more of Springfield's history if several local organizations are successful in their efforts to expand the site's boundaries to encompass the old and the new. The Elijah Iles House Foundation Board on Dec. 29 passed a resolution encouraging the National Park Service to expand the historic site boundary to include the Iles House at Seventh and Cook streets and the soon-to-be-reconstructed Lincoln Cottage on Eighth Street, across the alley from the Iles House...
