Google suit settled
Inside Higher Ed reports that a lawsuit pitting writers and publishers against Google has been settled. “Under the settlement, Google will pay the authors and publishers who have already sued […]
Inside Higher Ed reports that a lawsuit pitting writers and publishers against Google has been settled. “Under the settlement, Google will pay the authors and publishers who have already sued […]
The Kite Runner challenge has been decided. According to The News-Gazette, Champaign’s Unit 4 school board “reversed a committee recommendation Monday night and ruled that the novel The Kite Runner will no […]
Two University of Illinois Press authors have recently been honored for their work. Dr. Norman R. Shapiro’s translation of The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine has been awarded the […]
On November 3, 2008, we are publishing Place Names of Illinois by Edward Callary. Every weekday since October 1 we have posted one of the book’s nearly 3,000 entries. Today […]
Nauvoo [nah VOO, naw VOO]. Hancock. City (1841, 1899) six miles south of Fort Madison, Iowa. The area around modern Nauvoo was known as Quashquema, named for a minor Sauk […]
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Hoopeston [HUP stuhn]. Vermilion. City (1877). Modern Hoopeston is the result of an early 1870s merger of three communities: Hoopeston, laid out by Thomas Hoopes and Joseph Satterwhaite; North Hoopeston, […]
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Coffee. Wabash. Precinct. Also Coffee Island and Coffee Creek. The traditional story is that a keelboat loaded with coffee was proceeding up the Wabash River and took shelter for the […]
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Cairo. Alexander. City (1818, 1873). Chartered in 1818 as the City and Bank of Cairo by John G. Comegys, Shadrach Bond (the first governor of the state of Illinois and […]
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