Today's my last full day in the Weekday High office. I'll be in briefly on Monday, but then I'm headed out to Springfield, Illinois, for graduate school.
Springfield isn't as in the news, or as in need of aid, as Darfur, but a hundred years ago, it wasn't a peaceful place. There were some pretty terrible race riots in Springfield on August 14th and 15th, 1908. 9 people died. The riots were one of the events that led to the formation of the NAACP. WUIS, Springfield's public radio station, ran a really excellent half hour documentary on the race riots on Illinois Edition last week. You can listen to a stream of it here.
Thankfully, Springfield's a mostly peaceful place today, though the Illinois government (which I'll be covering) has been full of debate the past two years.
And Springfield, Ill. could possibly be the home of The Simpsons (that link might be broken), though I think it isn't, given that Homer and co. go to Capital City, and Springfield's the capital of Illinois.
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