Illinois Heritage, September–October 2022 Illinois Heritage, September–October 2022 Volume 25, Number 4 Elaine Evans / Friday, September 23, 2022 0 1765 Article rating: No rating In this issue of Illinois Heritage we take a canoe trip with “Ernie” Hemingway and his chums down the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers, meet a celebrated children’s author and artist from Macomb, investigate Chicago’s “Babbling Burglar” and his gang of bent cops, plant trees in Kewanee with some enterprising high school students, and explore the evolution of the Illinois prairie into an agricultural incubator for farming innovations around the world. Read more
Ebers property named state Centennial Farm Elaine Evans / Tuesday, April 24, 2018 0 2836 Article rating: No rating The Illinois Department of Agriculture has designated the Chad Ebers farm near Chester as a Centennial Farm. To qualify as a Centennial Farm, a straight or collateral line of descendants must have owned the property for at least 100 years. The Centennial Farm program helps to reinforce that family farming remains a viable entity in Illinois agriculture. The Illinois Centennial Farms program has recognized more than 9,000 farms since its inception in the early 1970s. Read more
Illinois Heritage, September–October 2016 Illinois Heritage, September–October 2016 Volume 19, Number 5 Shaggy / Monday, October 3, 2016 0 9101 Article rating: No rating This issue of the magazine highlights two themes: Sesquicentennial houses of worship around the state. Agriculture and related topics throughout the state. Sesquicentennial Churches are chosen from across Illinois based on the following criteria: Minutes of early church board meetings, marriage or baptismal records, grant of official charter, contemporary newspaper advertisements or articles, old city directories. ISHS looks forward to honoring more than 33 Sesquicentennial Churches for the fidelity and witness to others over 150 years of faithfulness to their calling. Agriculture in Illinois has a long and quite amazing history as one follows the movement and settlements which sprung up in, during and long after pioneer period. Karl Bodmer, a Swiss artist (circa 1832) painted a scenic view of a farm on the southern prairie. It is a good study of the French style of an American Bottom settlement. Read more