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Posts tagged Illinois Bicentennial
Buddy Guy, Superfans steal bicentennial gala
Pritzker, Rauner also look to future in celebrating 200th birthday for Illinois
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Ted Cox December 4, 2018 Bruce Rauner , J.B. Pritzker , Buddy Guy , Robert Smigel , George Wendt , Bill Kurtis , Illinois Bicentennial , Marc Schulman , Diana Rauner , Mike Ditka , Miguel Cervantes , Eli's Cheesecake , Kevin Cronin
Vote! For state's groundbreaking top women
Illinois Top 200 bicentennial celebration tries to determine top people, places, and things in state history
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Ted Cox October 5, 2018 Illinois Bicentennial , Illinois Top 200 , Lincoln Presidential Library , Illinois Bicentennial Commission , Oprah Winfrey , Michelle Obama , Hillary Clinton , Mother Jones , Lucy Parsons , Ida B. Wells , Betty Friedan , Jane Addams , Phyllis Schlafly , Archer Daniels Midland , Wrigley Field , New Salem , The Wizard of Oz , Ernest Hemingway , Frank Lloyd Wright , REO Speedwagon , Miles Davis , Benny Goodman , Alison Krauss , Lorado Taft , Louis Sullivan , Dick Van Dyke , Walt Disney , Bob Newhart , Jack Benny , Richard Pryor , Enrico Fermi , Michael Jordan , Dick Butkus , Walter Payton
'Gettysburg Address Rap' set for bicentennial
Program for 200th birthday in December includes Chicago’s ‘Hamilton’ Miguel Cervantes, Joe Mantegna, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Buddy Guy, and — if you can believe it — REO Speedwagon
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Ted Cox October 4, 2018 Hamilton , Alexander Hamilton , Abraham Lincoln , Tim Kazurinsky , Illinois Bicentennial , Gettysburg Address , Bill Kurtis , Joe Mantegna , Jackie Joyner Kersee , Chicago Cubs , White Sox , Chicago Bears , Chicago Blackhawks , Chicago Bulls , Rockford Peaches , Alison Krauss , Nat King Cole , Cheap Trick , Miles Davis , Benny Goodman , Buddy Guy , Sam Cooke , Muddy Waters , Kevin Cronin , REO Speedwagon , Styx , Stuart Layne
