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The Illinois State Museum has hired a leader in the museum field to serve as its director.  Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko will assume her new position Sept. 9. She comes to the Illinois State Museum from Bar Harbor, Maine, where she directed the Abbe Museum for a decade. Prior to leading the Abbe as president and CEO, […]

Bill Crook has been drawing for over 40 years, filling sketchbooks of his pen and ink illustrations that he says, “explore the interests of my heart.” Bill is a native of Springfield and has earned a reputation as an outstanding artist. People easily recognize Bill, often seeing him sketching at a site in Springfield, creating […]

Everett Cearlock , pictured with Bonnie Myers, enjoys a Cadilac ride made possible by Memorial Medical Center Foundation’s Sharing Wishes Fund, which grants the final wishes of hospice patients. When hospice patient Dorothy learned that her time on earth was coming to a close, she had a simple request: she just wanted one last margarita. […]

Jack Campbell There is no race on next Tuesday’s ballot more important than the Republican primary for Sangamon County sheriff. No other elective office in the county has the power of life or death, particularly in the jail. Inmates die when jails provide poor medical care, and lawsuits happen, with fiscal stakes running into the […]

Although he came into the world in 1964, Bassam “Sam” Al-Khayyat (pronounced Alkite) refers to July 3, 1989, as the day he was born. “I remember it like it was yesterday,” he says. “My plane landed, and as I stepped through the door the wind brought the smell of fresh cut grass. The sky was […]

One day while she was a professor at what was then Sangamon State University, Dr. Caryl Moy came upon a woman standing in front of a frosty window. The woman had cleared a space and was gazing out at the wintry scene. “Are you looking for somebody?” Caryl said. The woman turned. “Yes,” she said. […]

From the Women’s Suffrage March of 1913 to serving in Congress, the women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., have served both their communities and their nation. The group, formed in 1913 by 22 Howard University women dedicated to promoting academic excellence and providing assistance to people in need, has grown over the past 100 […]