"This is really a difficult day, it's something that I didn't want to see happen," Jennifer Brooks said as she watched demolition crews take apart a century old building her father, Neal, has owned for the past 23 years. Brooks said it wasn't an easy decision to tear down the building at 595 S. Broadway, but the cost to make the needed repairs was just to high. Patrick Clark Excavating of Braidwood was hired to bring the building down and that's just what he did on Aug. 28. Constructed in the 1890's, the building housed numerous businesses over the years, the most remembered was Jacino's Drug Store. Photos by Ann Gill
SALESMEN—Rick Coats (from left) and Rick Roseland, two of the five founders of the Five Guys Awesome Garage Sale, discuss sales strategy with honorary salesman Woody Montana. “We’re just out here to hvave a good time,” Roseland said. Photo by Ann Gill
Rick Roseland was sitting around one day with a few of his buddies when the idea to have a garage sale popped up in their conversation.
"My wife Jeanie just laughed at us, so we decided that we'd show her and thus the five guys garage sale came to be," Roseland said. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Maine Township honored one of its own as township officials gathered at the town hall on Monday to recognize and remember long time town clerk, Robert Krull. Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Heather Davis remembers just about every minute of May 1. "It was the day that everything came to a stop," said the 29-year-old from South Wilmington. Thursday, August 26, 2010
Two years after first receiving an annexation petition from Jack Riley, the Coal City Village Board is set to take action on the request. Tuesday, August 24, 2010
