“It’s kind of hard with buying medicine to have anything left over to buy food,” says Phyllis White, who lives in Auburn with her husband Ralph and their son and granddaughter, and their cat Tiger. The Whites will receive assistance with the food for Christmas from the Friend-in-Deed program.
Few options for parolees
In the two months following his release this year from prison on a drug charge, Clarence Hopson stayed at Adulthood Transition Center, a home for parolees on South 11th Street. It's one of the four options in Springfield for prison parolees who have nowhere else to go.
Mausoleum mending
The race to harvest
Casey and Patrick Norris, who own Norris Farm, harvest corn near Waverly, Illinois. Like many central Illinois farmers, they're seeing record yields after a summer of ideal growing conditions.
Fair glances, 2014
Juneteenth
Springfield’s annual Juneteenth celebration is held every Father’s Day in Comer Cox Park.
D-Day anniversary
Korean War veteran George Pempek, left, World War II veteran of the Pacific theater James Hofstetter and Joe Flynn, who landed at Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion, were among the several veterans honored during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Allied invasion at Normandy, France. The event took place at the Illinois World War II Memorial in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Veteran flyer
Art Grube, a veteran of the Army Air Corp during World War II who served as pilot or co-pilot on 35 missions over Europe, flew on the Aluminum Overcast, a World War II Boeing B-17 bomber Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. In the service, Grube flew the B-24 and said this was his first time on the B-17, but there were plenty of similarities. "I thought it was a very good," he said of the flight.
History revealed
Behind a brick facade unchanged for nearly a century is a piece of Springfield history. A former downtown hotel, closed for decades and abandoned, and a former print shop is the future home of a children's museum.
Fair and Square
The Illinois State Fair viewed with a smartphone.
