The Illinois Governor's Mansion The Peoples House Re-Opening
The Illinois Governor's Mansion has been home to Illinois governors and their families since 1855. It is the third oldest continuously occupied governor’s mansion in the United States and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Over the years, Illinois governors have hosted U.S. presidents, ambassadors, and most importantly, generations of Illinois residents at the People’s House. The Mansion underwent a privately funded 3-year renovation and reopened as the People’s House on July 14, 2018.
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Springfield, Illinois | Wikipedia audio article
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Springfield, Illinois
00:02:08 1 History
00:03:51 1.1 Lincoln
00:03:59 1.1.1 Lincoln and politics
00:05:39 1.1.2 Population
00:07:20 1.1.3 Business
00:07:56 1.1.4 Religion
00:08:51 1.2 Civil War to 1900
00:10:21 1.3 20th century
00:10:30 1.3.1 Utopia
00:12:02 1.3.2 1908 race riot
00:13:02 1.4 21st century
00:13:40 2 Geography
00:14:31 2.1 Topography
00:17:03 2.2 Climate
00:19:17 3 Demographics
00:22:48 4 Cityscape
00:24:52 5 Culture
00:26:28 5.1 Literary tradition
00:27:12 5.2 Performing arts
00:28:16 5.3 Festivals
00:28:44 5.4 Tourism
00:31:55 5.5 Sports
00:35:10 5.6 Media
00:36:51 5.7 NOAA Weather Radio
00:37:52 6 Economy
00:39:30 6.1 Largest employers
00:39:46 7 Law and government
00:40:59 7.1 State government
00:43:27 7.2 Township
00:44:12 8 Education
00:46:09 9 Infrastructure
00:46:18 9.1 Health systems
00:47:20 9.2 Parks
00:48:51 9.3 Public utilities
00:49:24 9.4 Transportation
00:52:46 10 Notable people
00:52:55 11 Sister cities
00:53:23 12 See also
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- Socrates
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Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County. The city's population of 116,250 as of the 2010 U.S. Census makes it the state's sixth most populous city. It is the largest city in central Illinois. As of 2013, the city's population was estimated to have increased to 117,006, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The capital is centrally located within the state. The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government entities include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
Olympia Washington's State Capitol / Supreme Court / Temple of Justice
The Washington State Capitol or Legislative Building in Olympia is the home of the government of the state of Washington. It contains chambers for the Washington State Legislature and offices for the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and treasurer and is part of a campus consisting of several buildings. Buildings for the Washington Supreme Court, executive agencies and the Washington Governor's Mansion are part of the capitol campus.
Illinois' old state capitol
The Old State Capitol is a reconstruction of Illinois’ fifth statehouse, serving as a seat of state government from 1839-1876. Lincoln delivered his famous “House Divided” speech here, debated his chief rival Stephen Douglas and waged his 1860 presidential campaign within these walls. It’s also where the assassinated leader lay in state in 1865 before being moved to Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. Visitors are welcome seven days a week. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. (Lori Rackl and Randi Stevenson / Chicago Tribune)
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AFSCME COUNCIL 31 @ Governor's Mansion
AFSCME members protest the closing of Historic Sites in Illinois. Citizens of the state of Illinois will nolonger have the opportunity to visit many sites. The Governor's daughter's school class was the last to tour the nationally known Dana Thomas house prior to the gov closing the site to the rest of Illinois' citizens.
Illinois House impeaches Blagojevich, governor reax
(9 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
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Chicago
1. Wide of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich walking into news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Governor:
The House's action today was of course not a surprise. It was a foregone conclusion. In fact, what the House did today, they'd been talking about doing for the last couple of years.
3. Blagojevich at podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Governor:
So we're going move forward, and I'm going continue to fight every step of the way. Let me re-assert to all of you, once more, that I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing. That issue will be dealt with on a separate course in an appropriate forum, a federal court, and I'm confident that at the end of the day, I will be properly exonerated.
5. Various of Blagojevich jogging (++MUTE++)
6. Wide of news conference with Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn:
Governor Blagojevich has lost the confidence of the people of Illinois. He's lost the consent of the governed, and under those circumstances, I think the proper course as I've said before and many others have said is to step aside and to resign, and I wish he had resigned today.
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8. Pan of Illinois House meeting
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Representative Barbara Flynn Currie, House Majority Leader, Illinois General Assembly:
This governor has violated his oath of office. This governor has breached the public trust. This governor must be impeached and I urge your aye vote.
10. Mid of room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Representative Tom Cross, House Republican Leader, Illinois General Assembly:
I had somebody ask me the other day, 'well aren't you as a body undoing what thirteen million people decided in voting for the governor?'. Not all 13 million. We have 13 million people. A certain number voted for him, more than the Republican candidate. We're not undoing anything. The governor undid it.
12. Mid of Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan calling for vote to commence
13. Mid of House meeting
14. Close up of display screen showing results
15. Wide of resolution voting board
16. Mid of Madigan, USPOUND: (English) The House does adopt House resolution 1671 and Governor Blagojevich is hereby impeached.
17. Wide of House meeting
STORYLINE
The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly on Friday to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented action that sets the stage for a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out of office for corruption and abuse of power.
Blagojevich responded with what has become trademark defiance since he arrested on federal charges a month ago.
He accused the House of retaliating against him for trying to help the people of Illinois and said he is confident he'll be properly exonerated at a Senate trial.
I'm going continue to fight every step of the way. Let me re-assert to all of you, once more, that I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing, he said during a news conference in Chicago.
He ended the news conference by quoting a poem from Ulysses by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Blagojevich had been out jogging in his Chicago neighbourhood when the House vote came down.
Impeachment required just 60 votes. The final tally was 114-1.
Legislators accused the Democratic governor of betraying the public trust by letting ego and ambition drive his decisions.
Blagojevich was arrested on December 9 on federal charges that include allegations he schemed to profit from his power to name President-elect Barack Obama's replacement in the Senate.
That arrest triggered impeachment hearings by a special House committee.
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Funeral March for Abraham Lincoln J.G. Barnard 1865
This funeral march written by John Gross Barnard was performed by the United States Marine Band during the funeral procession from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol for Abraham Lincoln on April 19, 1865. Arranged by Jari Villanueva for Wind Band.
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April 19, 1865 was a warm cloudless day in Washington DC as the funeral of Abraham Lincoln took place in the East Room of the Executive Mansion. This was to be the third of sad services held there since the beginning of the Lincoln administration. The first, in 1861, memorialized 24-year-old Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, a friend of the family who was killed at the beginning of the war in Alexandria, Virginia. The second, in 1862, was a particularly heart-breaking service for the president's 11-year-old son Willie.
At noon 600 specially invited guests were present for the service and listened to Dr. Phineas D. Gurley, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, deliver the sermon.
“He is dead; but the memory of his virtues, of his wise and patriotic counsels and labors, of his calm and steady faith in God lives, is precious, and will be a power for good in the country quite down to the end of time.”
Following the service twelve Veteran Reserve sergeants carried the casket to the waiting horse drawn hearse that would bear the remains to the US Capitol.
It was to be the largest, most elaborate, procession ever held in Washington with military units, bands, clergy, congressional delegations, state officials, generals, and civilian mourners all moving to the slow steady pace of the funeral dirge. Indeed, many would recall the sound of the muffled drums heard that day for years. Thousands who had been waiting since dawn lined the Pennsylvania Avenue and watched from seats in buildings.
It is interesting to note that the scale of the procession would be almost equaled almost a century later when the remains of President John F. Kennedy were borne up the same avenue. Jacqueline Kennedy had requested the same type of funeral for her husband as had been held for the 16th president. We can all remember the sights and sounds that day in November, 1963
The procession started from the Executive Mansion at 2 pm and proceeded up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol amidst the tolling of bells and the firing of minute-guns.
Among the military units was the US Marine Band playing a funeral march written for the occasion by John Gross Barnard, a general who served as Chief Engineer of the Department of Washington from 1861 to 1864, and as Chief Engineer of the armies in the field from 1864 to 1865. He was a distinguished scientist, engineer, mathematician, historian, author and musician.
The march is titled:
“Funeral March in Memory of the Abraham Lincoln: Played at the Obsequies of the President of the United States by the US Marine Band.”
The funeral march follows the standard format of dirges of the time (most notable are Webster’s Funeral March, Chopin’s Funeral March and March in Saul by Handel) written in minor keys (considered somber) and divided into eight measure phrases which makes it easy for the funeral cadence to be played underneath. This funeral march, like most written during this time, has a transition to a major key (happier sounding). This march goes to the relative major (D minor to D major) key.
Since no parts are extant from the US Band, I was asked to score the march for a modern symphonic band. I hoped to capture the somber drum beat and employed a chime to replicate the bells that tolled along the funeral route.
The procession arrived at the east side Capitol at 3 pm and the casket was taken up the steps into the Rotunda where Lincoln would lie in State until the early morning of the 21st when he would begin the long journey home by train.
“Bear him gently home”
New apartments to house Springfield homeless veterans
A ceremony to mark the beginning of a $2.85 million building project in Springfield is taking place Thursday morning.
Senator Durbin denies he will run for Illinois governor
Public Affairs - Bill Brady
State Senator Bill Brady (R-Bloomington), a veteran of eight years in the State House and six years in the State Senate, debates and discusses the issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz.
Topics discussed on the show include the re-building of the Republican Party, the 2010 Gubernatorial race, the friction between Family-PAC's Paul Caprio and Senator Bill Brady, the efforts to unify social and economic conservatives in the State GOP, the issue of whether social issue moderate Republican Senator Radogno can be an effective leader of the Republican Party in Illinois, Brady's key themes in his upcoming run for governor, the potential impact of an indictment of Gov. Blagojevich, the impact of the new Senate President, John Cullerton (D-Chicago) and the new Senate Republican Leader, Christine Radogno (R-Lemont) on the stalemate between the Governor and the Legislature, the prospects for an increase in the income or sales tax in Illinois and much, much more.
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Thomas Jefferson's Castle; Monticello
Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, the drafter of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States is a journey to tthe beginnings of the United States. We learn about what shaped the ideas of democracy, how important education was to the founders and that these were far from perfect men. the question of slavery would remain an issue for another generation to resolve.
Chefs representing 14 states brought their skills to the 2010 Great American Seafood Cook Off in New
HEADLINE: Chefs aim to rehabilitate image of Gulf seafood
CAPTION: Chefs representing 14 states brought their skills to the 2010 Great American Seafood Cook Off in New Orleans Saturday. Those who harvest, process and sell the Gulf of Mexico's famous seafood are trying to convince wary consumers the catch is not only delicious, but safe. (Aug. 7)
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SEAFOOD COOK-OFF BRINGS CHEFS FROM ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY TO NEW ORLEANS FOR A CHANCE TO BE CROWNED KING OF AMERICAN SEAFOOD.
HOWEVER, CROWNING A NEW CHAMPION THIS YEAR ISN'T NEARLY AS IMPORTANT AS SPREADING GOOD WORD ABOUT GULF SEAFOOD ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
Greg Volle (VOAL ee)/Illinois Chef
Illinois Governor's Mansion
Springfield, IL
35 years old
There's going to have to be a lot of reassurance. I think that's what this event this year is going to be all about, basically reassurance on a nationwide level.
EXECUTIVE CHEF GREG VOLLE (Voal ee)COOKS AT THE ILLINOIS GOVERNOR'S MANSION AND SAYS RIGHT NOW IT WOULD BE PRETTY TOUGH TO SERVE GULF SEAFOOD TO HUNGRY GUESTS.
Greg Volle/Illinois Chef
Illinois Governor's Mansion
Springfield, IL
35 years old
I would feel like I would have to go table to table and explain that this seafood has gone through a rigorous inspection and we're obviously not going to serve something that's tainted.
THE LOUISIANA SEAFOOD PROMOTION AND MARKETING BOARD IS MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE NATIONAL PERCEPTION OF GULF SEAFOOD THAN THE ACTUAL SEAFOOD DAMAGED BY THE OIL.
FIVE YEARS IS HOW LONG THEY THINK IT WILL TAKE FOR IMAGE TO REPAIRED.
Peter Fischbach/New Jersey Chef
Gourmet Dining Services
Toms River, NJ
35 years old
Right now the general perception is that Gulf seafood is tainted. and I'm sure some of it is. but the stuff that's tainted is not on the market. It's not safe it's not edible. It's not going to make it's way to the market.
SO THESE CHEFS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE ALSO HERE TO GET BETTER INFORMED.
Peter Fischbach/New Jersey Chef
Gourmet Dining Services
Toms River, NJ
35 years old
We were fortunate enough to take a trip out to the marshlands to see some of the devastation that is out there.
THESE CHEFS ARE GOING TO TAKE THEIR FIRST HAND EXPERIENCES FROM THE GULF COAST BACK TO THEIR CITIES TO HELP PROMOTE THIS STRUGGLING INDUSTRY.
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Mount Vernon - George Washington's Estate
George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and place of death and internment.
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Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester (421) | New-York Historical Society
Abraham Lincoln...as you see him in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, But this is not a copy of that sculpture...this statue came first. Its called a maquette. And it reveals the creative process of the sculptor Daniel Chester French. French made this maquette in 1916. Its plaster, painted to look like bronze. French wasnt sure how big the final version would have to be to fit the great pillared hall of the Memorial. So he started with this 3-foot tall model, and from it made another version 12 feet tall which he actually placed in the Memorial. He and Memorial architect Henry Bacon saw right away that 12 feet was way too small. They agreed that it had to be twenty feet tall. And thats what you see in the Memorial today. The marble sculpture was completed in 1919 and dedicated in 1922. Look around in this display area of sculpture and youll see Frenchs plaster model of the head thats on the colossal statue. Its the actual size of the finished sculpture of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial.
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ch 10) The Other Civil War
chapter 10: A People's History (Of The United States) Howard Zinn.
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Chapter 10, The Other Civil War, covers the Anti-Rent movement, the Dorr Rebellion, the Flour Riot of 1837, the Molly Maguires, the rise of labor unions, the Lowell girls movement, and other class struggles centered around the various depressions of the 19th century. He describes the abuse of government power by corporations and the efforts by workers to resist those abuses.