I thought it would be useful to start with a recent piece that gives us a lay of the land of Black Friday shopping. On November 24th, 2015, the Quincy Herald-Whig published an article titled “SCORE BIG SAVINGS; 9 TIPS TO HELP YOU MAXIMIZE YOUR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING POWER”. This article gives an in-depth list […]

For all these events, I utilized the new directory page on our website. There, you can zoom in on the map to search for Community History Archives in that area. I did this in different areas of the state to find different CHAs to search in. Each archive is listed on the side with the […]

The method I used to find these events is also my search tip of the week. In the past, we have covered a lot of ways to narrow down specific results. Did you know that there is also a way to look at specific papers without having to search for keywords or phrases? It is […]

Barack Obama made history, as do all presidents, but specifically because he was the first African American president. Before he was elected to the presidency, he had a political career in both the state and US Senate. In 1996, Obama was elected to his first term in the Illinois State Senate, where he was re-elected […]