Menard County News

Lincoln Police Department reports for Friday, Dec. 4 Bullock, Harry M., 17-year-old male, Lincoln; arrested Dec.

G eoff Ladd, director of the Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of Logan County, was saddened by the news that a personal friend as well as a true friend to Logan County had died in an unfortunate accident.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Unemployment rates in Jefferson County showed a slight increase in June over those in May, with only Hamilton and Washington Counties having better rates than Jefferson in the surrounding county area.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Unemployment rates in Jefferson County showed a slight increase in June over those in May, with only Hamilton and Washington Counties having better rates than Jefferson in the surrounding county area.

Identity politics and wild comedy collide with exciting results in Aaron Loeb's crazy quilt of a play, "Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party." When an elementary schoolteacher rewrites the Christmas pageant to include a scene featuring Honest Abe explaining his "special friendship" with Joshua Speed, all hell breaks loose in Menard County, Ill., ...

Hill Prairie Winery is the venue for an outdoor screening of a film shot in Menard County, produced by Petersburg natives Adam and Tom Galassi and Thomas Snyder and based loosely on the local legend of a boy, Raymond Colby, who claims he was carried off by a thunderbird to a magical place .