Some time back, I picked up this Illinois history textbook at a resale shop:
At the end of each chapter (15 of them), the textbook features the story/biography of a famous Illinoisan.
If you were making the decisions of what 15 to feature, what persons would make your list?
Here's who the author (Roger Biles from Northern Illinois University) chose:
Marie Rouensa *
George Rogers Clark
Ninian Edwards *
Black Hawk
Stephen A. Douglas
John A. Logan
Joseph Glidden *
Jane Addams
Louis Sullivan *
Samuel Insull *
Red Grange
Robert McCormick
Adlai Stevenson
Phyllis Schlafly
Jesse Jackson
(* ones that were not familiar to me)
One of those names baffles me.......
Why was Jesse Jackson chosen?
Who knows?
Mr. MLK-wannabe was given a spot that is so much more well-deserved by.......
Ernest Hemmingway
Walt Disney
Ronald Reagan
Ulysses Grant
Aaron Montgomery Ward
Abe Lincoln
Richard Sears
Carl Sanders
How in the world did Jesse make the list and Carl didn't?
YEESH!!
Out for now........
Matt
p.s. Decatur is featured (in fairly good detail) starting on page 225