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She worked in the banking industry in Springfield for over 20 years, [4] starting as a bank teller in 1988, and becoming a vice president of Marine Bank. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Buscher is married to Mike Buscher, who unsuccessfully ran for Springfield city council in 2007, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and is the sister in-law of former Springfield Deputy Chief of Police ...
Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois.Its population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.
Thomas John Joseph Paprocki (born August 5, 1952) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois since 2010. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois from 2003 to 2010.
Illinois PIRG was founded in 1987, and has offices in Chicago, Springfield, IL, and a national lobbying office in Washington, D.C. called US PIRG. [4] The PIRGs emerged in the early 1970s on U.S. college campuses. The PIRG model was proposed in the book Action for a Change by Ralph Nader and Donald Ross. [5]
WCIX (channel 49) is a television station licensed to Springfield, Illinois, United States, serving the Central Illinois region as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV.It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Champaign-licensed CBS affiliate WCIA (channel 3).
The Sliders dominated the first half of the 2008 season with a 20–4 record, winning by seven games. Springfield won the CICL Regular Season Championship with a 30–17 record, leaving the 2nd place team 4.5 games behind. In the 2008 playoffs, Springfield defeated the Danville Dans in three games to win the 2008 CICL Championship. [2]
The first Illinois State Fair was celebrated in 1853 in Springfield. In that first year, the admission fee was 25 cents. The fair moved to Chicago in 1855. [2] The 1850s were a golden age of agricultural journalism, with a wide variety of editors offering many suggestions, well-founded or not, to increase farm productivity.
A second march through Champaign on June 6, primarily organized by high school students and recent graduates, drew thousands of protesters. [16] Hundreds of protesters marched through Champaign in an "All Black Lives Matter" rally on June 28, the anniversary of the Stonewall riots , with a focus on injustices faced by LGBTQ black people.