On Saturday, April 28, the Illinois Innocence Project (IIP) will honor retired Lt. Paul Echols from the Carbondale Police Department for his persistent quest for a posthumous exoneration of Grover Thompson, now 22 years after the innocent man died in prison.

The good news is, they didn’t get nearly as many folks as hoped, predicted or feared. The daily rag put the number at 100, which seemed about right, and they came from all over the state to wave “Don’t Tread On Me” flags and act like homemade militias aren’t weird.

She didn’t dwell in the media limelight, yet she’s one of our country’s everyday people who consistently works to make a positive difference in all they do, accomplishing so much more good than the bulk of politicos and other sparklies who are perpetually in the public eye.

IMMIGRATION EDUCATION I’ve known Rosanna Pulido (“The anti-welcome lady,” Fletcher Farrar, April 5) since her entry into the struggle to restore sanity to our immigration policy, and I think it is grossly unfair to say that she considers immigrants and refugees to be “illegal aliens.

But that prediction – along with other predictions some Republican legislators are making about stuff like the possibility the Democrats will try to jam through a half-year budget – ignores one of the most significant legislative events of the past several years: The 2017 bipartisan overrides of Gov.

Cavan Sullivan and his family have a grain farm in Petersburg and recently decided to expand their business by opening Petersburg Processing, a poultry processor. As a processor, Sullivan also markets the chickens he processes, having developed relationships with various distributors who then deliver and sell to consumers in Chicago and St.

By the state’s 200th birthday on Dec. 3, voters will have chosen 10 favorites in 20 different categories. The most recent category was Illinois’ top 10 buildings, with voters crowning Wrigley Field, longtime home of the Chicago Cubs, as number one, with Springfield’s Dana-Thomas House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, in the number two position.

Acting on a tip, Springfield cops last July 26 served a search warrant at a Black Avenue home near Fairview Elementary School, finding a dozen marijuana plants in full bud and 33 others less far along. Possession of between 20 and 50 plants is a Class 3 felony, punishable by probation or a prison sentence as long as five years.

As the title suggests, the play’s content is self-referential, concerning itself as much with philosophical notions about literary creation and performance as with conventional elements of plot and presentation.

Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan.