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Gordon Stevenson in 1978 on the back cover of the album No New York poster for Gordon Stevenson's 1980 no wave film Ecstatic Stigmatic: the film with a disease. Gordon Stevenson was an artist, actor, musician and filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1982, [1] one of the East Village art community’s first casualties of the AIDS epidemic.
The Col. Matthew Rogers Building, also known as the Abraham Lincoln Long Nine Museum, is a historic building located at 200 S. Main St. in Athens, Illinois. The building was constructed circa 1832 by Colonel Matthew Rogers, who ran a store in the building. As Rogers was also postmaster of Athens, he moved the city's post office to his store.
IL 29 leads south 14 miles (23 km) to Springfield, the state capital, and north 18 miles (29 km) to Mason City, while IL 123 leads east 8 miles (13 km) to Williamsville and northwest to Petersburg. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city of Athens has an area of 1.68 square miles (4.4 km 2), all land. [2]
The Athens Post was founded in 1848 as a weekly. [4] It ceased publication in 1917. [5] The Athenian was founded in 1883, [6] with an 1886 circulation of about 1,000. [7] In its early history it billed itself as a Republican newspaper published weekly on Fridays. [8]
North Sangamon United Presbyterian Church (also known as Indian Point United Presbyterian Church) is a historic Presbyterian church building in Athens, Illinois.The building was constructed between 1860 and 1862 in a Georgian style.
The hotel included a pool and whirlpool area along with a business/conference center. Empress was the only casino in northern Illinois to have an onsite RV park. The park was opened seasonally and provided many amenities including showers, and water/electrical hook ups. A complimentary shuttle bus ran between the hotel and the casino. [6]
The population was 2,054 at the 2010 census. New Athens sits on the Kaskaskia River and was originally called Athens. The village was laid out in 1836 and incorporated in 1866. The name change to New Athens came in 1868 after it was discovered there was already an Athens in another part of the state.
Hotel Baker is a historic landmark in St. Charles, Illinois, listed on the National Register of Historic Places [2] and has been in and out of the hotel business since 1928. [ 3 ] History