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Submitted story This 2021 photo shows the former site of the first jail in Urbana, the northwest corner of East Market and South Locust streets. Submitted photo A 2021 photo shows the former site of the first jail in Urbana, located at the NW corner of E. Market and S. Locust streets. This Looking Forward is from the perspective of Simon Kenton, who was the jailer and prisoner here at the same time. We know that the original jail was built as a single-story building sometime before 1808 becau...

This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. We generally show up late for our weekly food-pantry shift, my daughter and I, pulling our masks on as we duck into the church basement just ahead of the 6 p.m. open for guests. I start by telling you this beca...

Art Industry News: A Former Top Trump Cabinet Official Dropped $14 Million on a Major Magritte at Christie’s + Other Stories Plus, the Art Institute of Chicago names Denise Gardner its new board chair and Kanye’s Nikes could fetch $1 million at Sothebys. April 14, 2021 Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross speaking at the SelectUSA 2018 Investment Summit June 22, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most co...

“Looking Back, Looking Here, Looking Forward,” an art installation created by McKinney Middle School students, will be the headlining exhibition at The Orphanage gallery in Dayton on Friday, March 5, 4–9 p.m. For the installation, students in Kevin Lydy’s eighth grade United States history class created magazine covers representing a historical time period, “looking back;” a contemporary example of a magazine cover, “looking here;” and a hypothetical cover based on what they fel...

This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. Shortly after I took this job, I started purposely capitalizing the “F” in “looking Forward” when signing off emails. Pun intended, I’d say. Never gets old! I love the movement and optimism inherent in t...

Unsplash After the year we’ve had, there’s a case to be made for getting the “special occasion only” goods out all the time. This story was first published on capsulenz.com A few months ago, I got the second-hand bargain of my life at an antiques shop in Nelson. I knew it was good because my mum has an eye for good antiques, after a life-time of collecting them and also helping run an antique store. “Buy them immediately before they change their mind,” she whispered to me as I mov...

The New York Yankees’ star slugger Aaron Judge hopes to stay off the injury list and contribute to an already impressive Yankees offense this season. With a lineup consisting of 2020 AL MVP runner-up DJ LeMahieu, Giancarlo Stanton, Gleybor Torres and Luke Voit, Judge and the Yankees will hope to continue dominating the American League with the longball. Judge Looks to Put Injuries Behind Aaron Judge has struggled with injuries after winning National League Rookie of the Year in 2017. Since hi...

John Roos, then U.S. Ambassador to Japan, shakes hands with children at Kawamata Minami Elementary School in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2012. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos will never forget spearheading a highly stressful emergency response as the United States lent a helping hand following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.  But the thing that stands out most in his mind even after the passing of 10 years...

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari Image zoom | Credit: David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images "I didnt know who was shooting. It was a secret project. So I showed up because of my friend. I showed up and everything just kicked off from there," he recalled.  Asghari and Spears, 39, began dating after filming the music video and now, more than four years later,...

As we move forward in the battle against this deadly virus, we're also reflecting on how far we've come with the uncertainty of this pandemic taking a toll on p...