Articles filed under Illinois Bicentennial
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Illinois 200: Caterpillar's long central Illinois history, and its HQ move to the suburbsOct 09, 2018 7:34 am - Peoria wasn't always a company town. It was a distillery town, a farm implement town and a river town before the Caterpillar Tractor Co. set up shop. A bond developed be...
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Illinois 200: Lincoln-Douglas debates frame slavery question, set stage for presidencyOct 01, 2018 5:58 am - The Lincoln-Douglas debates are among the most important events in U.S. history. The seven debates were conducted throughout Illinois in the summer and fall of 1858. No...
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Illinois 200: Illinois' long (and sometimes rocky) romance with trains enduresSep 24, 2018 1:57 pm - Trains brought Abraham Lincoln's body home to Illinois, transported southern blacks escaping Jim Crow laws to Chicago and now carry a labor force of thousands between th...
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Illinois 200: How the Decatur Staleys became the Chicago BearsSep 17, 2018 6:18 am - A.E. "Gene" Staley's successful corn manufacturing company in Decatur was already producing starch, glucose, sugar and syrup in 1919 when it added professional football ...
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Illinois 200: Fort Armstrong, Rock Island Arsenal have defended nation since 1816Sep 10, 2018 8:28 am - In summer 1814, skirmishes between the U.S. Army and British-backed warriors under the leadership of Black Hawk flared up and down the Mississippi River. Since 1803 the ...
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Illinois 200: Mother Jones lit a fire under laborersSep 03, 2018 9:40 pm - She lost her own family, so she adopted a new one, a huge one, lifting up the cause of labor while rising to become one of the most famous women in American history. In ...
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How Black Hawk, chief of the Sac and Fox, battled for his Illinois homeland, and lostAug 26, 2018 8:09 am - First, let's get his name straight. It was Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak. In English, he was Black Hawk, war chief of the Sac and Fox tribe, who lived most of his life in th...
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Illinois 200: State's aviation tech found on jets around the worldAug 21, 2018 11:13 am - Many Illinoisans don't realize it, but our state is a center of aerospace and aviation technology. Illinois' aerospace cluster is centered around the northern and northe...
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Illinois 200: 1908 Springfield race riot led to the creation of the NAACPAug 13, 2018 8:24 am - One of the pre-eminent civil rights organizations was born from one of the worst moments in Springfield's history. In August 1908, a white mob, thwarted in an attempt to...
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Illinois 200: Lincoln the first president to make use of electronic mass mediaAug 06, 2018 6:08 am - FDR used the radio, JFK scored on TV and Donald Trump expounds on Twitter. But the first president to make effective use of electronic communications was Abraham Lincoln...