Skokie, Illinois’ Holocaust Museum Wins National Award for Service and Education
by Jacob Rogers, Medill News Servie
WASHINGTON- The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center was honored this week as one of ten institutions to receive a...
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Window to the World Communications President and CEO Dan Schmidt delivers an address on the future of public media to the City Club of...
Author Patrick Rice: Vanishing School Boards
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Family Donates a Bible that once Belonged to Abraham Lincoln, to...
SPRINGFIELD – A unique Bible that belonged to Abraham Lincoln in his final year of life, a period...
From the City Club of Chicago – A Panel on the...
From the City Club of Chicago -- In the wake of child sexual abuse by clergy, and the recent indictments by the Philadelphia Prosecuting...
Christmas at the Governor’s Mansion, 2019!
The Governor and Mrs Pritzker celebrate their first Christmas in the Governor's Mansion in Springfield, as volunteers help to decorate the mansion's...
Illinois’ Growing Wine Industry
From Springfield: Over the last 15 years, the number of Illinois wineries has grown nearly ten-fold. This growth has added to communities availability of...
Remembering an Illinois Legend, Dick Lockhart
Dick Lockhart served in WWII and was a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, which began on December 16, 1944....
Illinois Bicentennial: Jim Edgar’s Decision to Not Run for Governor in...
In October 2005 -- former Governor Jim Edgar announced he would not run for Governor in 2006 against then Gov Rod Blagojevich. In this...
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