A busy weekend lies ahead for Springfield’s very own Prospect League collegiate baseball team. The Springfield Sliders play in Lisle on Thursday, travel to Quincy on Friday, and then swing back to the capital city for Saturday’s 6:35 p.m. start time against the Quincy Gems. Saturday’s promotion is Educators Night, sponsored by Horace Mann. Springfield […]
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Irish infusion
The Music of Ireland: Then and Now is the theme of the St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday, March 16, at high noon in downtown Springfield. Parade marshal, Jim McDonough, who was a past parade president and is a United Cerebral Palsy and Saint Patrick School volunteer, will be accompanied by almost 100 entries including: floats, […]
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Irish fte
The luck of the Irish, or at least the green, descends on downtown Springfield during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, March 17, at high noon. The parade is emceed by Amie Menenghetti of COOL 101.9 and Liz Willis of 100.5 WYMG who are stationed at the reviewing stand in the family friendly area on […]
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Anti-urban urban renewal
The downtown headquarters building of the Horace Mann Educators Corp. is getting its first major fix-up since it opened in 1972. Whatever its merits as a work of design, the building certainly was well built. In the years since it opened, Springfield’s city government has had to be remodeled after courts found it suffered from […]
