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Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Business reporter Tim Landis wrote last week about the expected listing by the National Register of Historic Places on the inclusion of a 1.3 mile section of Old Route 66. Located south of Springfield, the section is still used today: as a thoroughfare ...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
With a heavy assignment load on Saturday I didn’t get much time to spend at the Capital City Track Classic at Memorial Stadium. The early morning clouds had given way to sunshine, which made it even more depressing that I only had a short amount of...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
The above sentiment is that of Pastor John Wentz, who leads services at the southwest campus of South Side Christian Church in the former HPR Automotive repair facility building at 3040 Hamlin Parkway in Springfield. Pastor Wentz has gone to the len...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Springfield rolled out the red carpet this week in April, 1959 for the handsome, 23-year-old King Hussein of Jordan. Hussein had come, he said, because of its association with Abraham Lincoln and that he had been looking forward to it “very much,&...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
You were my trusty friend. You never failed me, as long as I remembered to charge your batteries and give you a fresh memory card, you were always there for me. You captured moments at a blazing eight frames per second and performed just like the postma...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
A new baseball season is upon us: all the dreams and possibilities! I don’t claim any one team as my own, probably because my itinerant journalistic life has landed me in more than several cities over the years. I was lucky to meet and photogr...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
A new baseball season is upon us: all the dreams and possibilities! I don’t claim any one team as my own, probably because my itinerant journalistic life has landed me in several cities over the years.
I was lucky to meet and photograph Joe DiMa...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
On the day before Easter in 1939, a crowd gathers on the sidewalk outside the Illinois State Hatcheries, 417 E. Jefferson St. H.L. Campbell, the hatcheries manager, had offered to give away 2,000 baby chicks to children as Easter presents. The crowd wa...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
As a kid, I had the great luck to see Shakespeare performed by some pretty well-known actors: Thomas Hulce in “Romeo and Juliet” at Long Wharf in 1981 and a year later, Christopher Walken as Hamlet at the former American Shakespeare Theatre in...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Media Day at Panther Creek Country Club took place tuesday. Defending LPGA State Farm Classic golfer Ji Young Oh was in town to revisit the course she earned her first LPGA victory on last summer. I’m also guessing she had no idea until the last m...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Some days there just is not enough space in the newspaper to illustrate every story. Sunday April 5, we ran the story about the Grand Reopening of the Chatham Public Library.
I spent some time Saturday April 4, walking through the library with director Li...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
On the evenings of most election days, the newsroom is an exciting place to be. Tomorrow’s election is a relatively low-key event, although several local races will be decided.
In 1956, the spring primary included races for president, governor, cong...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is back in the news; his indictment Thursday was anticipated. He certainly isn’t the first Illinois politician to be seduced by greed and power. Unfortunately for the rest of us who live here, he’s simply k...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
As reported in today’s State Journal Register, the saga of the threat of electricity being turned off at the rural Chatham home of quadriplegic Chris Owens has ended for now. Happily, with the office of the Illinois Attorney General intervenin...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
How to use the Apple iPhone as a toy camera
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Macaws flying around a Springfield, Ill., neighborhood is not a sight you see every day.
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Sunday morning was a magical time, at least for a few hours. An early morning snowstorm dumped several inches of snow-by Sunday afternoon, it was only a memory. As a photographer, it reminded me of my earliest efforts. When I was a teenager and gro...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Spring has officially sprung as evidenced by last week’s beautiful, fully-arched double rainbow. Sometimes it’s the most simple of subjects that make for a beautiful photo. I take little credit, as all I did was hold the camera and click the s...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Illinois State Journal photo staff, circa 1940, from left, Ray Hodde, Joe Imlay and Charlie Bilyeu. Thank you for visiting Behind the Curtain, a journal about photography by the photo staff of The State Journal-Register. It’s a place where you’...
Posted by Behind the Curtain 3 years ago.
Oxford Houses are little-known homes (at least to the general population of the drug and alcohol non-addicted) located in communities across the nation for recovering addicts.
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