Cooks contribute $1 million to Saluki Way project
Greg and Nancy Cook gave one million dollars to Saluki Way during a SIU Arena announcement. The gift is the largest donor contribution since 2003 and will go to the general Saluki Way fund as SIUC aims to reach its 83 million goal, with athletics director Mario Moccia praising the milestone.
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Greg
Nancy Cook
Saluki Way
Saluki
Cook
SIU Arena
John Cook
Greg Cook
Makanda
Southern Illinois University
Saluki Athletics
Nancy
Thomas Wittmann
Trautt-Wittmann
SIUC
Mario Moccia
Moccia
Cook Portable Warehouses
Miss Illinois Ashley Hatfield seeks Miss America title
Brent Stewart reports from Las Vegas as Miss Illinois Ashley Hatfield advances through Miss America preliminaries. Her parents Bill and Belinda Hatfield attend, recalling her first Miss Illinois competition and sharing family pride during this pivotal week.
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Brent Stewart
Las Vegas
Ashley Hatfield
Bill
Belinda
Wrryn Rn
Eve
Amalia Schwerdtmann
Back Then Beyond and Now exhibit at African American Museum
Louis Norvell, collector since age six, curates a large show at Southern Illinois Black history museum across from University Mall. The exhibit, titled Back Then Beyond and Now, fills most display space with about 100 framed pieces including postcards, sheet music, magazines, ads, dolls, piggy banks, books, baseball cards, and a slave collar. Norvell, a retired Forest Service employee, says the display records historical imagery while urging viewers to move beyond simply dwelling on the past.
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Carbondale Murphysboro
Louis Norvell
Norvell
University Mall
U.S. Forest Service
America
Huck Novara
Murphysboro
Museum returns Egyptian artifact to Egypt via Chicago office
The University Museum at Southern Illinois University Carbondale prepares to return a Ptolemaic bronze cat reliquary to the Chicago consulate, part of Egypt’s 2002-established effort through the Supreme Council of Antiquities to reclaim artifacts illegally shipped abroad.
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Carbondale
University Museum
Southern Illinois University
Dana Bachman
Chicago
Egypt
Supreme Council of Antiquities
Blagojevich seeks cross-state push on FutureGen project
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich asks governors of eight states to urge the Bush administration and the U.S. Department of Energy to keep the FutureGen experimental power plant on track. He notes rising costs and a possible scope change after Mattoon was selected to host the facility.
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Rod Blagojevich
Illinois
Blagojevich
Bush Administration
U.S. Department of Energy
Mattoon
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