Looking Back – Guiding tourists to Beardstown

Tourists using the WPA Illinois guidebook most likely drove past Schmitt Memorial Hospital.
Tourists using the WPA Illinois guidebook most likely drove past Schmitt Memorial Hospital. (CIPS Photo, Leigh Morris collection)
By Leigh Morris As the calendar turned to 1939, the nation was still struggling to put the Great Depression behind it. A first of its…
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