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On April 15, Charles Palmer won his petition for a certificate of innocence from the state s highest court. Palmer, a Decatur man, had been wrongfully convicted of murder for a 1998 Macon County homicide. This has been a long time coming and I ve been fighting for so long, Palmer told Illinois Times via email. A lot of people saw my murder charge and didn t understand that I was exonerated. Palmer said people judged him harshly, even though he was exonerated more than five years ago. I am really thrilled to be able to put this behind me, he said. In awarding Palmer s certificate, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned previous decisions made by lower courts which denied him a certificate of innocence. With the decision, the court ruled that state law regarding certificates of innocence only requires exonerees to prove their innocence for offenses for which they were initially charged. Palmer was released from prison in 2016, after the Illinois Innocence Project, based at Unive
Grant Johnson said it was his brother, Mitchell Johnson, who started helping a family friend s daughter take care of Clydesdale horses.
Eventually, Grant Johnson s parents, Dennis and Linda Johnson of Springfield bought their first Clydesdale in 1990. The family stable, Linden Clydes, still has seven of the iconic horses.
Grant Johnson now works full-time for Anheuser-Busch-In Bev s eastern hitch of Clydesdales in Merrimack, New Hampshire, but he s back in Springfield this week for the 2021 National Clydesdale Sale that begins a three-day run at the Illinois State Fairgrounds beginning Thursday.
The sale is open to the public, Johnson said.
Johnson said his entire family, including another brother, Dustin from Morton, volunteers with the sale, which has a connection to Springfield and the fairgrounds going back to the mid-1980s.
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Happy Thursday, Illinois. The talk in my house is about baseball. The Cubs won, the Sox were snowed out, and the A s are on a winning streak.
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It sure felt like old times yesterday. The City Council met in person, the mayor muted council members’ microphones, and Ald.
You gotta love Chicago politics. Though it seemed strategic that the U.S. Attorney’s court motion would go public midway through a City Council meeting (drama!), the court calendar shows the documents were scheduled for release this week. They were supposed to have gone public Monday, but it took extra time for the feds to redact much of the information. The filing is 227 pages.
The other finalist for this year’s award was Sara-Ann Rosen.
Elizabeth Ribarsky of Springfield, associate professor of communication at UIS, was honored with the Star Staff Award.
Ribarsky has chaired the annual Illinois Humane Trivia Night and in two years, she raised an additional $25,000 for the organization with this event.
Reagan Weichold of Chatham was honored with the Youth Volunteer Award. She was nominated by the Animal Protective League.
Weichold is a mentor for the APL’s Junior Volunteer Program.
Other finalists included Tyler Lancaster and Audrey Lupton.
Twenty volunteers were also honored with the Heart of Gold Award. Individual recipients were: Dennis Ahlberg, Anne Anderson, Stacey Austin, Jim Barr, Sandy Bellatti, Sally Cadagin, Becky Gabany, Paula Harris, Dorothy Hart, William G. Holland, DeeDee McCarty, Allison Montney, Traci Moore, Kristie Parkins, Megan Philpot, Renate Selby, Teressa Shelton, Kate Ward and Laura Winkelmann.