Lorado Taft’s Indian StatueSculptor Lorado Taft designed the massive statue as his tribute to the various Indians who lived on these wooded bluffs. Taft's reinforced concre... [click for more]
The Regulators and the BandittiIn the 1830,s and 1840,s an organized criminal gang known as the Banditti of the Prairie was active on the midwestern frontier. In 1841 six members we... [click for more]
Thomas FordThomas Ford, eighth governor of Illinois, was born in Pennsylvania in 1800 and came to Illinois in 1805, with the aid of his half-brother, George Forq... [click for more]
