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It was the dog, stuck atop skyscraping grain silos on Springfield’s northeast side in 2019, that forced Chris Richmond’s hand.

Some say the 100-year-old relic was also the birthplace of the Pillsbury doughboy, which first drawn by a plant manager.

The nonprofit Moving Pillsbury Forward has $6 million in commitments and plans for obtaining the balance of the $10 million needed to raze the Springfield plant and redevelop the site.

Some say the 100-year-old relic was also the birthplace of the Pillsbury doughboy, which first drawn by a plant manager.

Pillsbury Mills was a groundbreaking, history-making flour mill in central Illinois for most of the 20th century. But its continued disuse prompted a nonprofit group to create a five-year plan

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — It was the dog, stuck atop skyscraping grain silos on Springfield’s northeast side in 2019, that forced Chris Richmond’s hand.

Pillsbury Mills was a groundbreaking, history-making flour mill in central Illinois for most of the 20th century. But its continued disuse prompted a nonprofit group to create a five-year plan

A nonprofit called Moving Pillsbury Forward has a five-year, $10 million plan to raze the century-old plant and renew the 18-acre site.

It was the dog, stuck atop skyscraping grain silos on Springfield’s northeast side in 2019, that forced Chris Richmond’s hand.

Chris Richmond was a first-generation college grad thanks to his father's Pillsbury paycheck. Now he's behind Moving Pillsbury Forward.