This year marks the 75th anniversary of the most famous flying saucer event of all, the Roswell incident of 1947. But a half-century before, alien spacecraft were reported across Illinois, particularly in this area. One hundred and twenty-five years ago this spring, central Illinois was riveted by a string of spaceship sightings, many of which remain unexplained. The incidents were part of a nationwide phenomenon, as flying craft were reported from the Midwest to the West Coast. Among the most noteworthy sightings in Illinois was an incident involving three men on a farm one mile north of Nilwood at 2:30 p.m. on April 13, 1897. There, the Macoupin County Enquirer reported the landing of a “cigar or boat-shaped” object with “oars” running from the bottom and a “picnic canopy on top.” This odd-looking craft sat down in a field for 15-20 minutes, then flew off in a northerly direction. The ship was also spotted around 6 p.m. in nearby Green Ridge, tw
The baseball diamond bounded by Dodier, Grand, Sullivan, and Spring is commonly called Sportsman’s Park, but it has had many names during the century prior to the Herbert Hoover Boys Club taking over the site. When I decided to write a post about this I naïvely thought it would be ...
Em Holmead loved working in the medicinal cannabis industry. As someone who uses cannabis for their own chronic pain and anxiety, Holmead enjoyed helping patients find similar comfort as a cannabis advisor at Root 66 Dispensary off South Grand Boulevard. Yet, after working there for several months, Holmead felt employees deserved more than what they earned, for their long hours, low wages and scant benefits.
ST. LOUIS - Electricians with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Electrical Connection partnership are volunteering their time Saturday to work on upgrading electrical systems in 15 low-income homes. Volunteers with Electric Connection join the Rebuilding Together St. Louis effort every year - for 19 years - to help those in low-income households. Around [...]
Eyewitnesses are describing the moment a police chase ended in a fiery three-car crash, in which a mother and her toddler were ejected from one of the vehicles Friday morning in north St. Louis County.
A case involving a DUI stop that somehow morphed into the search of a passenger has earned a couple of cops a rebuke from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and a couple of handy reminders in a precedential decision that will make it that much tougher for law enforcement officers in this circuit to […]
Three weeks of lane closures on Interstate 270 across the Mississippi River are scheduled to begin on Monday, the Illinois Department of Transportation said.
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