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...classic works are being updated and improved upon. All the great themes that hitherto we thought had been dealt with definitively are being re-explored." In popular culture too, there is a Lincoln boom: in April a $150 million Lincoln library and museum complex opened in Springfield, Ill. Steven Spielberg has cast Liam Neeson to star in the first feature film on Lincoln since before World...
...fiscal year 1985, is headed by a woman, Illinois State Lottery Superintendent Rebecca Paul. I expect the lottery under her leadership to produce profits of more than $500 million for education in the coming year. For Illinois that is certainly "Fortune 500." James R. Thompson, Governor State of Illinois Springfield Computer Convert...
...statesman, seamed, grave and erect, was created as much by Saint-Gaudens' bronzes as by Mathew Brady's photos. Our image of the repressive, striding Puritan with Bible, cloak and conical hat owes much of its existence to the rhetoric of Saint-Gaudens' monument to Deacon Samuel Chapin in Springfield, Mass. His only nude female figure, the gilded sheet-copper Diana that he made as a weathervane figure for the top of Stanford White's original Madison Square Garden in 1891, slender as any mannerist charmer from Fontainebleau, became in a literal way the Golden Girl...
...Last month, lawmakers in Springfield overwhelmingly passed legislation sponsored by State Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins that would require Illinois to sell more than $1 billion worth of stock in several dozen companies with alleged links to Khartoum...
Last month, lawmakers in Springfield overwhelmingly passed legislation sponsored by State Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins that would require Illinois to sell more than $1 billion worth of stock in several dozen companies with alleged links to Khartoum...