Illinois General Assembly

I have chosen to write about the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. The place in question is a large, modern building. Its exterior has a looming presence, as though it were a stadium or a shopping mall rather than a church. The abundance of entrances and sections make the church a difficult place to navigate. Each entrance has its own parking lot, leading to a separate wing of the structure. Surrounding the building is a beautiful landscape, with lawns, pathways, and…

THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871 Chicago was a booming community with some of the finest and most modern building in the country, 59,500 buildings to be exact. Although some of those building were built from stone or brick and proclaimed fireproof. “Chicago was, in fact, a city of wood… The nearby forests of Michigan and Wisconsin made that material both inexpensive and easily obtainable.” Around two- thirds of Chicago’s building and houses were made of flammable wood. On October 8, 1871 a…

INTRODUCTION The Mississippian rocks of Kansas are regarded as the largest oil producing unit in the Midcontinent. These rocks have produced oil both at the top and within the sequence unit. The name “Chat” is given to these rocks because their high porosity and low resistivity characteristics (Rogers, 2001). Over 6000 well-logs such as neutron, density and resistivity have been studied in Kansas and result shows that the chat is everywhere but lack uniformity. Depositional and diagenetic…

of the water and can injure boaters. The invasion of Asian carp into U.S. waterways and the risk they pose to the Great Lakes sport fishing industry has provoked consternation and litigation among our neighboring states. And as Indiana’s attorney general, I want to make sure the Wabash will be protected from further spread of this aquatic nuisance.…

“A City Ready to Burn” By:Talyn Houghton On October 8, 1871, Chicago, Illinois was a city ready to burn. In the book The Great Fire, the author Jim Murphy gave enough evidence to show that Chicago was a city ready to burn into a mountain of flames in 1871. At the onset, the city was a windy city anyway but tonight it was just so out of hand that (60 miles per hour)when the fire started in the O’leary’s barn they said that the cow kicked the lamp over when she was milking it, the wind it…

From the timeline, you can tell that Dorothea Dix was responsible from a very young age. Her parents both sufferend and were therefore unable to be good parents due to depression and alcohol. This led Dix to have to care for herself. She became a school teacher at 14 and ended up publishing a textbook few years after that. A quote from it reads, “Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful…

Through this statement President Barack Obama is calling for action. He is telling people to go out into their communities and be the difference that they want to see rather than waiting on others to make that difference. This is a very easy statement to agree with. That change could be something as simple as voting for a politician that truly represents the community or going into a local park with the intention of picking up trash. These actions can contribute towards making the community…

When he was a boy, his family was very poor. He had a brother and a sister, but his brother died in childhood. They grew up in a small log cabin house, with just one room inside. When Lincoln was 7 years old, his family moved to Indiana and later to Illinois. So, Lincoln didn’t get much formal education. In his early years, he was influenced by his father who refused to own slaves even though it was legal at the time. Even though he didn’t go to school much as a child, he started working as a…

Local Fire Departments Will Take to the Diamond to Support Charity Pi Sigma Epsilon is hosting a softball tournament for fire departments to support the Iowa Burn Association. Cedar Falls, IA: At this time, Pi Sigma Epsilon, a local student marketing and sales organization at the University of Northern Iowa, is proud to announce that its members will be hosting a softball tournament to support charity on October 21st. The event, Blaze of Glory, will feature an all-afternoon softball tournament…

President-elect Barack Obama conducted a series of town hall meetings during his cross country “Mainstreet Tour.” On December 4, 2009 there was a memorable moment in Allentown, PA. There was an audible buzz in the crowd when it came time for questions from the audience. A large group of people eagerly pointed to one young man in hopes that Obama would call upon him. Obama said, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Alright I’ll make you first just because everyone is very excited about this young man…