Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/MCT American presidents love their pets. The Obamas adopted a dog named Bo shortly after Barack’s election in 2009, the Clintons brought Socks the cat and Buddy the dog to Washington, and John F. Kennedy kept a pony named Macaroni on White House grounds. What other typical and atypical pets have called the […]
Union Square Park
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Putting parks in their place
The problem in a city that likes to think of itself as forward-looking is that it seldom looks back long enough to learn from its own past. That, anyway, was the conclusion I came to after thinking about the proposed redevelopment of the YWCA block in downtown Springfield. So far, all we know about how […]
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Chic hog roast
Awarded best new special event by Downtown Springfield, Inc., Pork and Cork returns Friday, July 1, for a second year and a night of scrumptious food, savory wine and ear-pleasing music outside in Union Square Park across from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. Pork items prepared by Secret Recipes, desserts by Eli’s Cheesecake and Illinois […]
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Remember to not forget
The bronze sculpture commemorating the 1908 race riots was finally dedicated this summer on Aug. 6, a century late. As all mayors must, Mayor Davlin said a few words at the ceremony in Union Square Park. “I think we also put up a monument over here,” he said, “to remind . . . current and […]
