All the Laws of the State of Illinois passed by the Thirty-Seventh General Assembly, Convened January 7, 1891, Adjourned sine die June 12, 1891. Chicago: Chicago Legal News Company, 1891. Laws of the ...
Temperatures sank to -25 degrees and the city worried about a heating source SPRINGFIELD —On the fifth of February, 1899, Springfielders got a first icy inkling of what was to come. The hints came in ...
In 1899, Springfield tried to be New Orleans. City leaders wanted to hold a carnival to entertain state fair visitors, since the fair at the time was an agricultural exhibition with no entertainment.