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The Springfield attack came more than a decade before at least 25 documented attacks by white people against Black people during the summer of 1919, later called “Red Summer ” for the bloodshed. Two years later, a white mob looted and burned Tulsa's Greenwood district , killing as many as 300 Black residents.
Republican (2016–present) Spouse. Mike. Children. 2. Education. Lincoln Land Community College. Misty Buscher (born 1970/1971) [1] is the mayor of Springfield, Illinois, the state capital and seat of Sangamon County. She is the second female mayor in the history of Springfield.
President Joe Biden is set to sign a proclamation Friday to designate a national monument at the Springfield, Illinois, site of the 1908 race riot, which later fueled the formation of the NAACP.
Steven Spearie, Springfield State Journal- Register. August 14, 2024 at 12:49 PM. Calls for an independent investigation into the Illinois sheriff's office that employed the deputy who fatally ...
For two nights in August 1908, a White mob laid siege to Springfield, Illinois, indiscriminately looting, burning and destroying Black-owned homes and businesses, in a race riot that would become ...
Prior to the 2020 election, all news organizations predicted Illinois was a state that Biden would win, or otherwise considered a safe blue state. Biden carried Illinois, winning 57.54% of the vote to Trump's 40.55%, winning by roughly the same 17-point margin by which Hillary Clinton carried the state in 2016.
The University of Chicago Institute of Politics said Capitol Fax is "a must-read for policymakers, lobbyists and journalists in the Statehouse." The Center for State Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Springfield said "Miller's readers are the legislators, staffers, lobbyists, reporters and business owners throughout Illinois who pay $350 a year to subscribe to Capitol Fax ...
The 18th congressional district of Illinois covered central and western Illinois, including all of Jacksonville and Quincy and parts of Bloomington, Peoria, and Springfield. It covered much of the territory represented by Abraham Lincoln during his single term in the House. It was last represented by Republican Darin LaHood, who took office in ...