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advertising
Lincoln Daily News
(217) 732-7443
ldn@lincolndailynews.com
appliances
McEntire's Home
Appliance and TV
403 Broadway St.
(217) 732-4874
mcentires@abelink.com
attorneys
John R. Gehlbach
Law Office
529 Pulaski St.
(217) 735-4311
jrglaw@ccaonline.com
Thomas L. Van Hook
Lincoln
(217) 735-2187
Tvanhook@CCAonline.com
auto repair/service
DuVall's Automotive
Complete Auto Repair
720 N. Sherman St., rear
(217) 735-5545
duvallautomotive
@hotmail.com
Thompson Auto Body
919 S. Kickapoo
(217) 735-2915
automobiles
Interstate Chevrolet
105-115 Lincoln Ave.
P.O. Box 170
Emden, IL
62635-0170
(888) OK-CHEVY
(652-4389)
www.interstatechevy.com
J&S Auto Center
103 S. Logan
(217) 732-8994
www.jandsautocentre.com/
Row Motors
222 S. McLean
(217) 732-3232
rowmotors@msn.com
banks
Logan County Bank
303 Pulaski
(217) 732-3151
books/educa.
Prairie Years
121 N. Kickapoo
(217) 732-9216
bottled water
Culligan
318 N. Chicago
(217) 735-4450
www.culligan.com
Gold Springs
1165 - 2200th St.
Hartsburg, IL
(888) 478-9283
www.goldsprings.com
Puritan Springs
1709 N. Kickapoo St.
(217) 732-3292
(800) 292-2992
Puritan Springs at LDN
carpet cleaners
Advanced Carpet Cleaning
708 Pulaski St.
P.O. Box 306
(217) 732-3571
cellular phones
Team Express
411 Pulaski St.
(217) 732-8962
www.teamelectronics.org
colleges
Heartland Com. College
620 Broadway St.
(217) 735-1731
www.hcc.cc.il.us
computer service
CCA
601 Keokuk St.
(217) 735-2677
cca@ccaonline.com
consignment
Closet Classics
129 S. Sangamon St.
(217) 735-9151
(888) 739-0042
contractors
Koller Construction
2025 2100th St.
Atlanta, IL 61723
(217) 648-2672
(217) 732-2672 cell
stevekoller@aol.com
Roger Webster Construction
303 N. Sangamon St.
(217) 732-8722
www2.ccaonline.com/rwcinc/
convenience
APOLLOmart
725 Broadway
(217) 732-4193
credit unions
CEFCU
341 Fifth St.
(217) 735-5541
(800) 633-7077
www.cefcu.com
employment
Illinois Employment
and Training Center
120 S. McLean St.
(217) 735-5441
ietc@abelink.com
fin. consultant
K. Bridget Schneider
A.G. Edwards & Sons,
Inc.
628 Broadway, Suite 1
(217) 732-3877
(800) 596-0014
www.agedwards.com/fc/
kbridget.schneider
florists
All Things Blooming
125 S. Lafayette St.
Mount Pulaski, IL
62548
(217) 792-5532
www.allthingsblooming.com
food & ice cream
Gleason's Dairy Bar
110 Clinton St.
(217) 732-3187
funeral directors
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
127 S. Logan
(217) 732-4155
F-C-S at LDN
garden
Clark's Greenhouse
& Herbal Country
2580 100th Ave.
San Jose, IL
(309) 247-3679
www.herbalcountry.net
gifts
The Mustard Moon
1314 Fifth St.
(217) 735-1093
www.themustardmoon.com
health &
fitness
Health & Fitness Balance
113 S. Sangamon
(217) 735-4463
home
improvements
Kenshalo-Rousey
214 N. Chicago
(217) 732-8682
Windows, doors, siding,
awnings, sunrooms.
hospitals
ALMH
315 Eighth St
(217) 732-2161
www.almh.org
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Features
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Business owners bring
their enthusiasm
for Lincoln to Main Street board
[AUG.
13, 2002]
Two local business owners
have been elected to fill vacancies on the Main Street Lincoln board
of directors.
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Linda Churchill,
owner of The Mustard Moon, has been active in Main Street for
several years. She has served on the Postville Cluster and the
Promotions Committee of the Looking for Lincoln program.
Dan Doolin, co-owner
of Integrity Data, has shown his commitment to historic preservation
through his firm’s restoration of a downtown historic building into
an attractive, state-of-the-art headquarters. Integrity Data has
also hosted several Mornings on Main public meetings.
"Dan and Linda’s enthusiasm for downtown
revitalization and commitment to the community will be an asset to
the Main Street Lincoln program," noted Jan Schumacher, president.
The organization is always seeking volunteers interested in
improving downtown. Those interested can call the Main Street office
at 732-2929.
[Main
Street Lincoln press release]
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Elkhart —
Soup to nuts
and archaeology too
[AUG.
12, 2002]
As of July, Governor
Oglesby Street in Elkhart is home to a new bakery and an adjoining
archaeological museum.
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The Bluestem Bake Shop, owned by
Cynthia Hinton of Athens, offers a variety of pastries as well as
sandwiches, soup and a garden salad. It is open 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
Wednesday to Saturday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday.
Hours for the Under the Prairie
Frontier Archaeological Museum are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday to
Saturday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Run by Hinton’s husband, Robert
Mazrim, it is next door to the bakery, in the 100 block of Elkhart’s
main drag, directly across from the war memorial.
[Photos by Lynn Shearer-Spellman]
[Cynthia Hinton offers a tray of cookies.]
The sandwich menu at Bluestem Bake Shop
includes ham and cheddar as well as either chicken salad or turkey
and cheese on a croissant. During the summer there is a veggie
sandwich with light cream cheese. Soups change from day to day.
Three varieties are cream of mushroom with asparagus, Illinois sweet
corn soup and chicken dinner, which Hinton says contains "all the
fixings for a chicken dinner" — chicken, green beans and potatoes.
The pastry cabinet showcases such
treats as raspberry Danish, chocolate chip pecan muffins and a
French doughnut that looks like a muffin but has the texture of a
cake doughnut. There are several varieties of cookies, including
macadamia nut. One unusual offering is Abraham Lincoln’s favorite
cake, vanilla almond with a seven-minute frosting.
Hinton bakes the pastries daily from
scratch. She says she focuses on "comfort cooking."
Volunteers Vi Lanum and Tasha Dawson
assist Hinton.
Both the bakery and museum are located
in the Stahl building. Mazrim said the building was structurally
sound and needed only remodeling. In the process the owners
uncovered the tin ceiling and wood floor, as well as some exposed
brick at the top of one wall in the bakeshop. The bakery is painted
a soft olive green and features five wooden tables with assorted
chairs.
The Bluestem Bake Shop takes its name
from a prairie grass which once flourished in central Illinois. The
name meshes with the focus of the museum, which interprets everyday
Midwestern life during the late 1700s and early 1800s. Displays of
pre-Civil War artifacts as well as publications on Illinois heritage
for sale in the bakeshop also announce this focus. Entry to the
museum is along one wall of the bakery.
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The museum is operated by the Sangamo
Archaeological Center, which has offices, an archaeological
laboratory and curatorial facility in the building. Mazrim, who
directs the museum, is also a consultant to the state on historical
archaeological projects. He possesses educational credentials in both
anthropology and archaeology and has been active in the field for
almost 15 years.
The well-lighted and clearly explained
museum displays present pottery, utensils, tools, glassware, weapons
and other artifacts of the pre-Civil War era. Some Native American
tools and artifacts are also exhibited. Special displays highlight
artifacts uncovered in digs on Elkhart Hill and in Sangamo Town,
south of New Salem, which was abandoned about 1840.
[The
exterior of the archaeological museum on
Governor Oglesby Street in Elkhart.]
Mazrim defines the museum as the
"archaeological equivalent of New Salem." No artifacts actually come
from New Salem, but because the two focus on the same period, the
1830s, he sees it as the most important tie to nearby tourism. "I
hope to see enhanced activity in Logan County by the next tourist
season," he said.
Elkhart was chosen as the museum site
because it has easy access to I-55 and is relevant to the frontier
period, being situated on the northern edge of the 1,500-square-mile
Sangamo Country and along an early travel route. In addition, Mazrim
said he liked the Elkhart downtown area, which is still alive and
active.
Edwards’ Trace, a 300-year-old trail
between the Great Lakes fur trading posts and the settlements along
the Mississippi near St. Louis, crossed Elkhart Hill. Mazrim said
the trail climbed the hill because the surrounding flat land was
swampy. The hill also provided a lookout point.
Besides maintaining the museum, the
Sangamo Archaeological Center will issue a series of publications
and provide educational programs. Mazrim said one of the earliest
bulletins will describe what is known about Edwards’ Trace.
Educational programs will interpret material culture, or objects
from everyday life, and will depend on what projects are asked for
and funded.
Entry to the
museum costs $3 for adults. Children under 6 visit free.
[Lynn
Shearer Spellman]
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Where
do you go for the
goods and services you want?
In
the know…
You
finally discover where the best chai in town is and you’re
ecstatic! Then you discover it’s been there a year or so and no
one told you about it. You’re exasperated! Local businesses change
hands, move, increase their stock or services, do all sorts of
things you’d really like to know about, and somehow you don’t
get in on it.
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The cure:
LogOn Production’s Channel 15
has the show you’ve been
waiting for — "Chamber Chat." It airs from 5:30 to 6 p.m.
Tuesdays. The
Lincoln/Logan County Chamber of Commerce hosts the weekly
half-hour LIVE talk show.
"Chamber Chat" features
updates on local business activity, community events, issues, and
interviews with volunteers and leaders of special programs taking
place in the community. There will also be opportunity for viewers
to call in with live questions.
There are plans to
occasionally film segments on location in local businesses to add to
the perspective and content of the show.
The show
will air several additional times each week, but Tuesday night will
be the LIVE show. [Click
here to hear it!]
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Lincoln/Logan
County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Bobbi Abbott thinks,
"A focus on our GOOD NEWS will hopefully provide a domino
effect in positive attitudes and opinions about our community."
Abbott
invites, "If you have business activity, please e-mail
to me any news about your place of business —
expansions, new employees, new products or services, changes in
location or management, etc."
Bobbi
Abbott, Executive Director
303
S. Kickapoo Street
Lincoln,
IL 62656
(217)
735-2385
chamber@lincolnillinois.com
www.lincolnillinois.com
[LDN]
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Announcements
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The
Chamber Report
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[JULY
8, 2002]
Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival license
plates, T-shirts and collector pins are now on sale in the chamber
office. Also, we’re recruiting festival volunteers for parking cars,
selling tickets or manning booths. Stop in and pick up a stack of
festival brochures for your business!
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The
chamber of commerce is a catalyst for community progress, bringing
business and professional people together to work for the common
good of Lincoln and Logan County. |
Bobbi
Abbott, Executive Director
Lincoln/Logan
County Chamber of Commerce
303
S. Kickapoo St.
Lincoln,
IL 62656
(217)
735-2385
chamber@lincolnillinois.com
www.lincolnillinois.com
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Honors
& Awards
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Main
Street Corner News
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Main
Street Lincoln
Cindy McLaughlin, program manager
303
S. Kickapoo
Lincoln,
IL 62656
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Phone:
(217) 732-2929
Fax:
(217) 735-9205
E-mail:
manager@mainstreetlincoln.com |
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insurance
Aid Association
for Lutherans/
Lutheran Brotherhood
604 Broadway St., Suite 4
(217) 735-2253
linda_aper@aal.org
www.aal.org
Behne & Co. Inc.
Richard I Ray & Assoc
1350 Richland Ave.
(217) 732-9333
May Enterprise
106 S. Chicago
P.O. Box 129
(217) 732-9626
Moriearty Insurance
Agency, Inc.
218 Eighth St.
(217) 732-7341
miai@ccaonline.com
State Farm-
Deron Powell
114 E. Cooke St.
P.O. Box 78
Mount Pulaski, IL 62548
(217) 732-7341
www.statefarm.com
interior decorators
Gossett's
Decorator Studio
311 Broadway St.
(217) 732-3111
bgossett@abelink.com
internet services
CCAonline
601 Keokuk St.
(217) 735-2677
webmaster@ccaonline.com
investments
Aid Association
for Lutherans/
Lutheran Brotherhood
604 Broadway St., Suite 4
(217) 735-2253
linda_aper@aal.org
www.aal.org
janitor/cleaning
Donna Jones
Commercial Cleaning
Floor waxing,
polishing & cleaning
(217) 735-2705
massage
All About You
408 Pulaski St.
(217) 735-4700
Serenity Now
716 N. Logan
(217) 735-9921
meat market
Benner's Too
511 Woodlawn Road
(217) 735-9815
motels
Holiday Inn Express
130 Olson Drive
(217) 735-5800
www.cdmhotel.com
nursing homes
Maple Ridge
2202 N. Kickapoo
(217) 735-1538
Maple Ridge at LDN
office supply
Glenn Brunk
Stationers
2222 S. Sixth
Springfield, IL 62703
(217) 522-3363
www.glennbrunk.com
optometrists
Advanced Eye Care
623 Pulaski St.
(217) 732-9606
www.advanced
eyecenters.com
Nobbe Eye Care
Center, LLC
1400 Woodlawn Road
(217) 735-2020
pest control
Good Ole Pest Control
Daron Whittaker, owner
380 Limit St.
(217) 735-3206
pizza
Stuffed-Aria Pizza
102 Fifth St.(217) 732-3100
printer/printing
Key Printing
Tom Seggelke
(217) 732-9879
key@keyprinting.net
www.keyprinting.net
real estate
Alexander & Co.
Real Estate
410 Pulaski St.
(217) 732-8353
sonnie@ccaonline.com
Diane Schriber
Realty
610 N. Logan
(217) 735-2550
schriber@ccaonline.com
ME Realty
222 N. McLean
(217) 735-5424
www.merealty.com
Werth & Associates
1203 Woodlawn Road
(217) 735-3411
werthrealty@abelink.com
restaurants
Blue Dog Inn
111 S. Sangamon St.
(217) 735-1743
www.bluedoginn.com
service station
Greyhound Lube
1101 Woodlawn Road
(217) 735-2761
sewing
The Sewing Place
503 Woodlawn Road
(217) 732-7930
thrift stores
Lincoln Mission Mart
819 Woodlawn Road
(217) 732-8806
Clinton Mission Mart
104 E. Side Square
Clinton, IL 61727
(217) 935-1376
tires
Neal Tire & Auto
451 Broadway
(217) 735-5471
www.bentire.com
title companies
Logan County
Title Co.
507 Pulaski St.
LCtitle@ccaonline.com
tourism
Abraham Lincoln Tourism
Bureau of Logan County
303 S. Kickapoo
(217) 732-8687
www.logancounty
tourism.org
towing
AA Towing
& Repair
945 Broadwell Drive
(217) 732-7400
upholstery
L.C. Upholstery
529 Woodlawn Road
(217) 735-4224
weddings
The Classic Touch
129 S. Sangamon St.
(217) 735-9151
(888) 739-0042
Weddings by Crystal
121 S. Sheridan St.
(217) 735-9696
www.weddings
bycrystal.net
youth programs
YMCA
319 W. Kickapoo St.
(217) 735-3915
(800) 282-3520
http://www.ymca.net/
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