After a few weeks of Gov. J.B. Pritizker’s “stay-at-home” order, I began reaching out to a variety of people to see how they were coping. Most were bored.

    Memorial Day traces its roots to Nov. 19, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln delivered what we now call the Gettysburg Address.

  Imagine toys with radioactive radium, poisonous chemicals, or the ability to generate temperatures of up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
What could possibly go wrong?

    Since the dawn of the age of electricity more than a century ago, humanity has been showered with an unequalled array of goodies. Of course, those benefits come at a price.

When we left you last week, Princeton was fading away and the Mad Stone’s fate as well as efficacy were unknown.

    This story begins in Czarist Russia and ends up on a scaffold in Franklin County.