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This is what I did with Springfield HS. A nice water fountain to welcome the students each morning. Plenty of outdoor seating for the students to study, or hang out with classmates.
Kansas City District Natural Resource Specialist Scott A. Rice (left) is interviewed during the July 17, 2014, Springfield Cardinals minor league game by play announcer Andrew Buchbinder on live radio. They discussed water safety and the importance of wearing a personal floatation device while recreating on the water. Photo by David S. Kolarik.
Springfield College Public Safety comfort dog Rookie community introduction in partnership with MiraVista on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
Had Dinner last night here and it was awesome! The Root Beer even brewed locally. If you're in town this is a Must Stop At location.
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.
The Springfield Bridge in Faulkner County is old, in fact it's the oldest bridge in the state of Arkansas. It was built in 1874, which (if my math is correct) was 146 years ago. That was so long ago that the president was Ulysses Grant and there were only 37 states. The iron bowstring truss bridge was constructed over Cadron Creek, along a road that ran between the town of Springfield to Des Arc.
The fact that the bridge is still standing is an amazing achievement and a rare preservation success. In 1991, the bridge was replaced with a new concrete bridge and was abandoned. For decades the bridge deteriorated, slowly accumulating damage from rot, floods and vandalism. The bridge was in such rough shape that it probably would not be standing now if it weren't for efforts from the city of Conway, who saved the bridge and moved it ten miles south to a new home on Lake Beaverfork a few years ago. The bridge was cleaned and refurbished, and is now in use as a pedestrian bridge.
Tasco red dot. Accurate 6" 1911, if I say so myself. Pictures by Sabarika: www.spectralphotoandart.com