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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 22, 2008
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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Publishers Weekly reviews Simone de Beauvoir’s “Wartime Diary”
The October 6, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a laudatory review of the forthcoming (December 2008) English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary. “What gives these notebooks additional […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 21, 2008
Kinmundy. Marion. City (1867, 1875) ten miles northeast of Salem. Laid out about 1857 on the line of the Illinois Central Railroad by William T. Sprouse and named for the […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 20, 2008
Cave in Rock. Hardin. Village (1901) twenty-five miles southeast of Harrisburg. Named from the natural cave in the bluff along the Ohio River, a landmark for boatmen since the seventeenth […]
Time Out New York reviews Oni Buchanan’s “Spring”
The October 16-22, 2008, issue of Time Out New York includes an enthusiastic review of Oni Buchanan’s new book of poems, Spring. “Buchanan writes poems that are deeply sensitive, precisely […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 17, 2008
Equality. Gallatin. Village (1851, 1872) ten miles east of Harrisburg. Founded about 1827 by Willis Hargrave, John Black, and Thornton Cum(m)ings. Formerly known as the Gallatin Salines, a tract of […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 16, 2008
Shawneetown. Gallatin. City (1814, 1874) nineteen miles east of Harrisburg. Also Shawnee Township. Named from the Shawnee Tribe, the “southern people,” members of which migrated to the area from southern […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 15, 2008
Savoy. Champaign. Village (1956) two miles south of Champaign. Named for Princess Clotilde of the Alpine Duchy, the House of Savoy, who visited Illinois in 1861 with her husband, Prince […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 14, 2008
Lickskillet. Lickskillet is a popular (usually informal) place name, occurring at least a hundred times in the United States. The stories told to explain the name are remarkably similar, usually […]
Recent online attention
A variety of University of Illinois Press books have received online attention in recent weeks: –Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 on […]