Springfield’s Pillsbury Mills plant

By Muddy River News | January 1, 2024

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips take you inside the Pillsbury Mills plant, where a group looks to bring new life to a long-abandoned structure in the heart of the state capital. In 2019, a community working group started meeting to discuss the public safety and environmental issues posed by the site. They…

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Edwards Place

By Muddy River News | July 10, 2023
MUDDY RIVER GEMS: Edwards Place

Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips take you to Edwards Place in this month’s Muddy River Gems. Edwards Place, built in 1833 and remodeled in 1857, is an historic house museum that tells the story of social and domestic life in Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield, Illinois. Restored to its antebellum glory, this Italianate mansion was one a center…

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