In a new ad for the 2012 campaign, Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith ”implores members of the African-American community to have ‘Obama’s back’.” One fan, however, thinks Smith might want to focus on football instead, especially given the state of Bears football at the moment, looking back on a disappointing season. At this point, for die-hard fans, Lovie [...]
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You know when Piers Morgan is a shill for a company, somethin’ be wrong. CHICAGO — A Burger King on the city’s South Side has been closed by the city, after inspectors found so many insects buzzing around that they were “afraid to open their mouths.” There were “more than 200 flying insects of various [...]
Sugar Grove Meets Progress
Posted: August 8, 2011 in Illinois, REYNOLDS, TALLMANTags: Genealogy, Illinois, Pop Culture
SUGAR GROVE, ILLINOIS – Sugar Grove is small. Although close to Chicago, among the far west side suburbs, the town hasn’t been overrun with development. But “progress” keeps edging closer and closer. I have an interest in the place because it’s where Morgan Reynolds married Hannah Tallman in March of 1850. They’re my great-great-great grandparents, [...]
I’ve found a book at the public library, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo, with details of the 1858 campaign in Illinois for the U.S. Senate seat. The race was between Democrat Stephen Douglas and Republican Abraham Lincoln. The duo traveled widely in the state, formally debating eight times mano a mano. The major reasons I [...]
Today, in 1858, was the beginning of 60 days of non-stop rain in Chicago. ajh
On April 7, 1862, Union soldiers led by General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. The 55th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, in which two of my relatives served, was part of the battle. These two, Levi and James Goodell, had a younger brother named Hiram who joined a different [...]
January 30, 1861
Posted: January 30, 2011 in Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, GOODELL, Illinois, PARKERA writer with The New York Times has a great piece on Abraham Lincoln in Illinois just prior to heading to Washington for his inauguration. My Parker and Goodell relatives were living in the area at the time. I think it’d be hard not to know him. Lincoln was a lawyer and local politician for [...]
Kane County, Illinois, just west of Chicago, is a place of interest to me because a few ancestors lived there. (My great-great-great grandparents Morgan Reynolds and Hannah Tallman were married in Sugar Grove Township in 1850.) While the following news story doesn’t have any genealogical value, I am growing increasingly concerned about civil liberties and the [...]
