Menard County News

G eoff Ladd, director of the Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of Logan County, was saddened by the news that a personal friend as well as a true friend to Logan County had died in an unfortunate accident.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Unemployment rates in Jefferson County showed a slight increase in June over those in May, with only Hamilton and Washington Counties having better rates than Jefferson in the surrounding county area.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Unemployment rates in Jefferson County showed a slight increase in June over those in May, with only Hamilton and Washington Counties having better rates than Jefferson in the surrounding county area.

Identity politics and wild comedy collide with exciting results in Aaron Loeb's crazy quilt of a play, "Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party." When an elementary schoolteacher rewrites the Christmas pageant to include a scene featuring Honest Abe explaining his "special friendship" with Joshua Speed, all hell breaks loose in Menard County, Ill., ...

Hill Prairie Winery is the venue for an outdoor screening of a film shot in Menard County, produced by Petersburg natives Adam and Tom Galassi and Thomas Snyder and based loosely on the local legend of a boy, Raymond Colby, who claims he was carried off by a thunderbird to a magical place .

Nearly 400 applications totaling $442 million are chasing the next round of federal stimulus spending on transportation in Illinois.

Repairs continue at Petersburg's new water plant after it was struck by lightning last month.

Chicago attorney Karen Conti bought a piece of Menard County history today for $31,000. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Petersburg was auctioned off after the church's membership had dwindled to about a handful of people.

Lenora Wilson is sad that Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Petersburg, which she began attending in the 1940s, is being auctioned this coming Saturday.

The health-care industry in the Springfield area - the second-largest employer behind state government - generates almost $2.5 billion a year in direct and indirect economic activity and shows great potential for the future, according to an economic impact study released today by the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce.