Nov. 22

• City of Lincoln dedicates 1st smoke-free park

  • Opening comments by Mallory Sinner

  • Album 1  |  Album 2

• NWS confirms 10 tornado touchdowns in Illinois Sunday
  Washington's EF4, 46.2 miles; 2 other EF3's cover 47.7 miles

• United Way sets up Tornado Relief Fund for victims of recent storms

• LC women's basketball to host disaster relief games

• Historic Preservation Commission public hearing notice

• 2nd annual free Thanksgiving dinner Sunday

• Logan County Arts & Crafts Guild to have holiday party Monday

• Local convenience, friendly hospital staff important to new mom

• BBB advises: Be generous, but give wisely

• How to choose, pay for and enjoy a career

Nov. 21

• Lincoln Public Library District joins eRead Illinois

• Lincoln Jaycees seek donations for Washington

• Lincoln Jaycees encourage community to support Angel Tree

• Lynx wrestlers tied for 2nd in national rankings

• LCHS speakers perform at Charleston

• ZLS 1st-quarter honor roll

• Flu facts
  From the Logan County Department of Public Health

• Great American Smokeout
  Do it today, do it for 1 day — it could become a habit

• Hunters head to the field this week for firearm deer season

Nov. 20

• Lincoln parks go tobacco-free

• What day is it? GIS Day

• ZLS Bible Bowl team takes 1st place

• Slackers closes kitchen but still offers pizza and wings

• Outdoors with Babe Winkelman: Oh, Mr. Grouse, you're such a wonderful bird!

• When to call 911

Nov. 19

• County board to appoint its last tourism bureau board tonight

• Logan County Board prepared to set next fiscal year budget and other financial matters

• Public meeting of city planning commission Thursday

• Post-tornado messages from the Pekin and Washington chambers of commerce

• BloNo Smoke asks for help for Washington

• MKS Jewelers offers unique help to Logan County Food Pantry

• It's cookie time at HSLC
  Order yours today

• Brian Wrage to speak at Woman's Club on Wednesday

• Logan County sales tax payment received for schools

• Kathryn Nobbe is the Zion Lutheran November Student of the Month

• Logan County Democrats cancel December meeting

• Illini have no trouble with Bradley
  By LDN staff

• Anniversary special feature: When it comes to the Gettysburg Address, even trivia can be important

• IDNR proposes regulations to implement Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act

Nov. 18

• Preliminary report indicates EF4 tornado hit nearby Washington
  Logan County between 2 destructive lines of tornado activity

• Latest from the NWS on the central Illinois tornado outbreak Sunday

  • Ameren Illinois outage map

• Public meeting of city planning commission Thursday

• Christmas on Vinegar Hill comes this weekend

• Harvest of Talents offers 'take-and-bake' cinnamon rolls for the holidays

• Tammy Renee Harris to perform in Mount Pulaski on Dec. 12

• Logan County sales tax payment received for schools

• Logan County Democrats cancel December meeting

• Preparation is the key to winter storm survival

  • Illinois winter weather facts   (PDF)

• 'The people' mark Gettysburg Address anniversary by recording Lincoln's words

• Illinois' housing value at $179,900 and homeownership rate at 67.3 pct

Nov. 16

• Sunday a.m. post: Severe weather with possibility of tornadoes this afternoon

• Sunday post: High wind the cause of accident on I-155

• Boomtown round table brings many participants and ideas for a better Lincoln
  Part 2

• Are we defined by an NPR commentary? No, we are Lincoln!
  By Lincoln Mayor Keith Snyder

• PASE to host Vinegar Hill event at Mount Pulaski Grade School

• LC's Simpson named NJCAA Player of the Week

• Slim Randles' Home Country: A cousin and a badger, a pipe and a cigar

• Illinois transportation and law enforcement join forces to launch 'Ice and Snow – Take it Slow'

• State health dept. releases strategy for future of public health in Illinois

• Ag director welcomes Illinois State Beekeepers Association

• Memorial's Festival of Trees runs Nov. 23-Dec. 1