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In today’s history blog, I outline the winding path Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere’s own company took to begin manufacturing Revere...

In today’s history blog, Carl Person stands trial for murder. Depending on the verdict, he’d walk away a free man, or hang at the...

An outgrowth of an educational program that engages young people with African American history in Illinois, The Illinois Freedom Project...

On December 30, 1913, Carl Person shot and killed the former police chief of Clinton, Tony Musser. Today’s blog covers the first two...

Today’s history blog and the next 2 to follow explore the 1911 Shopmen’s strike, and the trials and tribulations of quite possibly the...

This month’s blog focuses on a phenomenon I had assumed only really existed in movies and books, or maybe in the old wild west: jail breaks.

How did DeWitt County get it's name? What about the name Clinton for the town? Here is a look at the Namesake of both!