Articles filed under Illinois Bicentennial
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Illinois 200: Cahokia Mounds was 'America's first city'Jul 22, 2018 8:29 am - A gaggle of rambunctious fifth-graders scrambled to the top of the 100-foot-high Monks Mound to get a great view of the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis and burn off e...
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Illinois 200: Rock Island area site of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 battlesJul 15, 2018 7:22 am - At the confluence of the Mississippi and Rock rivers, the Quad-Cities region has provided a footnote to history for virtually every war fought on American soil, includin...
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Illinois 200: Reagan's 'quintessential' story began at Eureka CollegeJul 08, 2018 6:26 pm - Illinois might be known as the Land of Lincoln, but another president with Illinois roots holds sway around the central Illinois city of Eureka, home to Ronald Reagan's ...
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Illinois 200: Ulysses S. Grant's first march to war was from Springfield to QuincyJul 01, 2018 8:41 am - Col. Ulysses S. Grant passed up a chance to have his soldiers ride in train cars. Instead, he thought it best that they march to war. So, on July 3, 1861, Grant mounted ...
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Illinois 200: The sights you can see on historic Route 66Jun 26, 2018 7:35 am - Perhaps it is the yearning for yesteryear that endears Route 66 to so many people. Who wouldn't want to jump into a classic car and explore the United States, stopping a...
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For more than 75 years, Peoria's AG Lab has made an impact on lives with 'wonderful discoveries'Jun 18, 2018 7:46 am - PEORIA - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, formerly named the Northern Regional Research Laboratory, has been h...
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Muddy Waters wrote the songs of Chicago's blues legacyJun 06, 2018 6:06 am - Since June 2017, Muddy Waters' image has beamed down from a 10-story mural at 17 N. State St. in Chicago. But the king bee of Chicago blues looms even larger over the ci...
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O'Hare Airport: Part of Illinois' and commercial aviation's historyMay 30, 2018 2:06 pm - To correct a Monday article, the Douglas Aircraft Co. built transport planes at Orchard Field, now the home of O'Hare International Airport. It took just seven year...
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Illinois' 200th: World War II caused dramatic changes to way of life, economyMay 21, 2018 5:55 am - When the U.S. entered World War II, everyone sacrificed. "From Victory Gardens to rationing to the draft, everyone was in," said Mary Kerr, of Washington, Illinois. Life...
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Illinois Bicentennial: How Walgreens became an institutionMay 15, 2018 7:38 am - A pharmacist at Walgreens for 37 years, Joel Karlinsky might had often seen people on their worst days, coming to him for antidotes to their health maladies. But in prov...