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HAVANA — The Illinois River is part of the Mississippi Flyway, an aerial superhighway for migrating birds, and an excellent place to witness the great migration of waterfowl is a place called Emiquon, across the river from Havana. "The fall migration to see birds is outstanding. ... Hundreds of thousands of waterfowl are moving through here," said Jason Beverlin, deputy director of river conservation for The Nature Conservancy, which oversees the Emiquon Preserve. During a visit earlier this month, large flocks of snow geese were gathered in the area, along with American white pelicans —...
Prepare to be fully focused on your screen for 120 minutes when you sign in for a new kind of live theatre via IRT. This Wonderful Life flies from a light-filled white cinderblock basement dressing room up blue metal staircases onto the main stage laid out like angel wings at the base of a fulsome circle intermittently running rainbowâs gamut â via human propulsion fueled by Rob Johansen. Heâs on jet stream to show why the 1946 Frank Capra film is so meaningful to him. Johansen grabs hold and never lets go until the bold strokes story makes you get up from wherever you...
The Spirit of Community Dancers, performing a dance interlude during “Spoon River Anthology.” “I can imagine what things sound like even though I am deaf,” Robert Panara wrote in his poem, “On His Deafness.” I can imagine the strumming of a guitar, I can imagine the rustle of a star. The words appear at the end of a new production of Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology,” a century-old collection of poems re-envisioned with computer technology, and awarded new meaning by the raucous and confusing year of 2020. “That was p...