Word: springfields
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...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...
...Lincoln just got a spiffy new museum near his boyhood home in Springfield, Ill. But the hometown legacy of less-than-Lincolnesque figures is often harder to maintain. An update on some domiciles of departed American icons that have been in and out of danger recently...