A plain white pitcher, a bowl, a broken plate and a whiskey bottle from the mid-to-late 1830s are among the finds from Floyd Mansberger’s digs on the block where the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library now stands.

Once again, we are faced with the question that has long bedeviled political analysts and barstool pundits everywhere: Is the pusillanimity of Democrats worse than the stupidity of Republicans? The question arises because of a curious vote last week...

His great specialties included French fried lobster tails and the biggest, truly huge baked potatoes with a unique cheese sauce, which brought many customers, such as my wife and I and friends and others, back for more for many years.

tiny green trillium trefoil tiny pied trout lily leaves tiny frondsy dutchman’s britches tiny spring beauties already in blossom other leaves and shoots unidentifiable I’m sorry to be stepping on you here in the woods you wee ones are so many amid...

Back in 2005, I asked House Speaker Michael Madigan why he didn’t just run somebody against Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the ’06 Democratic primary if he was so upset at the way Blagojevich was running things. “I did that once, and it led to 26 years of uninterrupted Republican rule,” Madigan cracked.

Despite the best efforts of public health officials and other groups, the rate of sexually transmitted disease infections among teenagers continues to rise. While HIV and AIDS captures most of the attention, people often forget about other STDs such as gonorrhea, herpes and chlamydia.

Before Nöel Scott became a stay-at-home mom, she worked as an early childhood teacher with the local Early Start program. She taught mostly low-income kids and was astounded to see them holding books upsidedown or paging through books backward.

In a move that has party veterans scratching their heads, Patrick “Tim” Timoney, outgoing chairman of the Sangamon County Democrats, has appointed almost 40 new precinct committeemen over the past month, according to records provided by the county election office.

In the late 1950s, 4,000 drive-in movie theaters dotted America’s landscape. In that decade, 120 theaters, including The 66 Drive- In on Sixth Street and the Springfield Drive- In on Dirksen Parkway, entertained carloads of families and teenagers with their twilight and after-dark movies.

Hudson didn’t know what to think when she first learned that factory farming was coming to her town. Elmwood, Ill.

Apr 26, 2pm, Planned ride with specific stops. For scooters and light motorcycles to honor Earth Day and raise money for Community Energy Systems. $20. Start at Grab-A-Java, Sixth St. For more info, call 629-7031 or 855- 8356 or visit censys.org or springfieldscooterclub.

To most people, being green just means replacing your old light bulbs with compact fluorescents, reusing plastic grocery bags, turning off the water while brushing and placing your empty aluminum cans and TPS reports into the appropriate plastic bins at the office.

Just when you thought it was safe for your drugs to go in the water... . “We ask that residents no longer flush their meds,” says Angela Harris, Sangamon County’s recycling coordinator. Harris acknowledges that for many years, flushing was the recommended method for disposal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products.

Diane Wasson photographed these wildflowers in Allerton Park, near Monticello, as a participant in the Allerton Corps of Discovery, one of several groups organized under the Corps of Discovery program to teach a new generation to communicate both the joys and concerns of the natural world.

I wish I could go back to high school. I never thought those words would pass my lips. Even more bizarre — I want to take home ec classes. I avoided home ec like the plague in high school. Sewing didn’t interest me, and my mom told tales about the gruesome foods she’d made in home ec.

Hill sets out to destroy the conventions and rhythms of the standard comedy and he does so with a sense of mischievous glee. With Ronnie’s creepy, earnest voice-over narration and barely contained psychotic behavior, it’s obvious that Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.

Kerasotes listings are for Friday, Apr 17 through Tuesday, Apr 21. All times are subject to change. Bracketed show times indicate Saturday and Sunday matinees. Please note that Parkway Pointe plays no late shows Sun-Tue, and the first show Fri, Mon and Tue is 3:40 p.

Heads up out there, music fans, the Springfield Freejazz and Creative Music Forum presents BoxDeserter Trio, an innovative ensemble of major players from the avant-garde music landscape, at 7:30 p.m., on Tuesday, April 21, at Charles

Springfield’s hardest working and hardest playing hard rockers, House of Nasty, celebrate a special career night with a hometown showcase on Friday, April 17, for Refugee Entertainment, a record company based out of Cleveland, Ohio.

The Copyrights, The Nephrons, The Wide Awakes, Don’t Mess With Winkie, Horrible Things.

Set in France, girl (Rosalind) falls instantly in love with boy (Orlando). The royal family quarrels amongst themselves. Men are exiled. Lovers pine. Girl disguises herself as a man (Ganymede). Confusion and mistaken identity ensues. Lovers are united with their proper mates.

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The old saying, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure,” still holds true today, maybe even more so in these hard economic times. There will be lots of treasures to uncover in one indoor location at The Giant Flea Market at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Illinois Building this Sunday.

The FRBC serves the Seventh Federal Reserve District, an economically diverse region that includes all of Iowa and most of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin..

This is a win-win story. For more than a year, Wade Kammin trained a lab/golden retriever puppy named Easton, teaching him obedience skills, house manners and behavior appropriate for public places in preparation to return him for further training at...

NOTICE UNDER ASSUMED BUSI- NESS NAME ACT STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF SANGAMON TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that on the 25th day of March, 2009 a Certificate of Ownership of business was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Sangamon County, stating that KATHERINE D.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SANGAMON COUNTY — SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS FLAGSTAR BANK, FSB , PLAINTIFF VS JAMIE JACKSON AKA JAMIE ARELETTE JACKSON; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGA- TEES OFJAMIE JACKSON, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD...

When Derek Shaun Clark, 26, kicked in the back door of a home in Evansville, Ind., entered with a drawn handgun and announced he was the police, homeowner Derrick Murray was skeptical because Clark and his accomplices “were talking in street slang.

My husband and I have never had a good relationship. We got married six years ago because he needed someone to save him from drinking and destructive behavior, and I was seeking some sort of rebellion. I forced him to clean up his act by threatening to leave.