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The Great Western Depot was the site of Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Speech as he left Springfield, Illinois for Washington, D.C. to become the 16th President of the United States. The Great Western Railroad had constructed the simple brick building in 1852 as a one story structure and used it primarily as a passenger station during Lincoln's time. The characteristic wide overhanging roof provided shelter for passengers, belongings, and freight as they awaited their train. Although fire heavily damaged the structure in 1857 and a second story was added in 1900, the general exterior appearance did not change greatly. Passenger service was moved to a new building in 1868, but the depot continued to be used for freight service for a number of years by the railroad. Various other businesses used the depot as a warehouse prior to the 1960's when the building was purchased to preserve its historic association. It has since been a historic site with a Lincoln focus. In 1987 the State Journal Register (now owned by Gatehouse Media, Inc.), the descendant of the newspaper Lincoln knew, took control of the building and its maintenance and works in partnership with the National Park Service to interpret the historic site.
Rick Springfield is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States. He had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the US. He received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Jessie's Girl". He followed with four more top 10 US hits, "I've Done Everything for You", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair of the Heart" and "Love Somebody". His two US top 10 albums are Working Class Dog (1981) and Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982). As an actor, he portrayed Dr. Noah Drake on the daytime drama General Hospital, from 1981 to 1983 and during 2005 to 2008.
Crews from the Oregon DOT used surplus materials to create illumination for the Springfield Bridge on the west end of Springfield.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state's sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of 2019, the city's population was estimated to have decreased to 114,230, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.
Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons, including, hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_State_Capitol
The Illinois State Capitol, located in Springfield, Illinois, houses the legislative and executive branches of the government of the U.S. state of Illinois. The current building is the sixth to serve as the capitol building since Illinois was admitted to the United States in 1818. Built in the architectural styles of the French Renaissance and Italianate, it was designed by Cochrane and Garnsey, an architecture and design firm based in Chicago. Ground was broken for the new capitol on March 11, 1868, and the building was completed twenty years later for a total cost of $4.5 million.
The building contains the chambers for the Illinois General Assembly, which is made up of the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. An office for the Governor of Illinois, additional offices, and committee rooms are also in the building. The capitol's footprint is cross-shaped, with four equal wings. Its tall central dome and tower roofs are covered in zinc to provide a silvery facade which does not weather. Architecture scholar Jean A. Follett describes it as a building that "is monumental in scale and rich in detail." The interior of the dome features a plaster frieze painted to resemble bronze, which illustrates scenes from Illinois history, and stained glass windows, including a stained glass replica of the state seal in the oculus of the dome.
These pics are from 2005 when we (Cabin Fever Auctions) liquidated a tool & die shop in Springfield, NJ. The pictures are poor quality and kind of a jumbled mess, but they serve to illustrate what a big pile of machine tools were there. I can remember several machines that I don't have a picture of. There was a total of 57 standing machine tools, including 7 Bridgeports, the nicest of which is happily residing in my shop. No, the Hendey Tool & Gauge Makers Lathe is not mine. I already had mine when we did this sale. Many of these machines went to people who I'm still in touch with. It was quite a haul.
A fine view of the Canterbury foothills and the Southern Alps taken from the platform at Springfield Railway Station in November 2003.
The yearly celebration of Artsfest in Springfield, Mo. Thousands attend the weekend long long festival to celebrate the arts.
Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito join Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno and other state and local officials to celebrate the redevelopment of Springfield’s Civic Center Garage on Aug. 20, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office]
Springfield Fire Heavy Rescue 1 on scene at a mobile home fire after the crews saved it's wheelchair bound occupant from the intense and smokey fire that occured just after midnight on June10,2008. The fire fighters arrived to find heavy fire showing and the neighbors of the man yelling that he was trapped in the structuture. As the engine companies worked to control the fire the truck crews found a way to access the structure from the rear and pulled the man from the fire. He was transported in serious conditon to a local hospital.