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Illinois Times is a weekly free newspaper (distributed every Thursday) based in Springfield, Illinois, United States. [1] Founded in 1975, the newspaper was acquired in 1977 by Fletcher Farrar Sr., a Mount Vernon businessman who employed his son, Fletcher, Jr. (Bud), as editor. The senior Farrar died in 1995; his son sold the paper two years later.
Daily newspapers. The Beacon-News – Aurora. Belleville News-Democrat – Belleville. Belvidere Daily Republican – Belvidere. The Benton Evening News – Benton. The Breeze-Courier – Taylorville. The Carmi Times – Carmi. Centralia Morning Sentinel – Centralia. The Chicago Defender – Chicago.
1910–2020 [ 1] The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Since 2022, it is the flagship paper of the non-profit Chicago Public Media, [ 3] and has long held the second largest circulation among Chicago newspapers, after the Chicago Tribune. The Sun-Times resulted from the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun ...
President Joe Biden and Governor Pritzker in 2021. Pritzker was inaugurated as Illinois's 43rd governor on January 14, 2019. [ 55 ] With an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion in January 2019, he became the richest politician in the United States. [ 56 ] He began his second term in office on January 9, 2023.
The governor of Illinois is the head of state and head of government of Illinois, and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution. It is a directly elected position, votes being cast by popular suffrage of residents of the state. The governor is responsible for endorsing ...
Since becoming a state in 1818, 43 people have served as governor of Illinois; before statehood, it had only one territorial governor, Ninian Edwards. The longest-serving governor was James R. Thompson, who was elected to four terms lasting 14 years, from 1977 to 1991. Only one governor, Richard J. Oglesby, has served multiple non-consecutive ...
The Illinois Fighting Illini ( / ɪˈlaɪnaɪ /) are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The university offers 10 men's and 11 women's varsity sports. The university operates a number of athletic facilities, including Memorial Stadium for football, the State Farm Center for both men's ...