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Discusses her all day a year of love and survival teaching incarcerated kids at Rikers Island this program contains language that some might find offensive. Good evening folks. Welcome to Greenlight Bookstore i am Jessica Bagnulo one of the owners. We are happy to host Liza Peterson. You can give her a round of applause now. [applause] her new book is all day a year of love and survival teaching incarcerated kids at Rikers Island. And she is going to be speaking tonight with Flores Forbes so you are in for an excellent evening. Maybe another round of applause. [applause] before turn things ove...

Encounter here at the riverfront museum. This gallery talks about it from a Historical Perspective and also about the river as a means of transportation and a big part of the economy. The gallery begins with a historical look at how the river ago anded 15,000 years about the people who lived here in prehistoric times. It was a geological event 15,000 years ago. At the time, this was in a time of great glaciers. There was a glacier lake around what is now chicago and michigan. And that burst the dam. So most of the water would have come through the base or overthetop. And it rushed down the Ill...

Illinois. Located on the Illinois River, today, it is one of the largest cities in the state and home to the headquarters of caterpillar. It came from when the owner to tested his tractor as it was moving through the field, and the press was there. One of the reporters of that, said it look like a caterpillar moving across the field. Everyone starting calling the machines caterpillars. Announcer 2 but it was known as the whiskey capital of the world. Whiskey was king in the early 1900s. There was 73 different distilleries and 43 breweries, not at the same time, but that many. Announcer 2 with ...

This gallery talks about the river from both a historical perspective, and also about the river as a means of transportation and a big part of the economy. The gallery begins with a historical look at how the river was formed 15,000 years ago and about the people who lived here in prehistoric times. The kankakee torrent was a geological event 15,000 years ago. At the time, this was in a time of great glaciers. There was a glacier lake around what is now chicago and michigan. That glacial lake burst its dam. So most of the water would have come through the base or overthetop. And it rushed down...

At cspan. Org, or listen on our free cspan radio app. History tvcan exclusive, pew area, illinois, to learn more about pe oria, illinois. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Most people know they may not know the details but they know it was king in the 1800s and early 1900s. 18801920. Was the distilleries lined the Illinois River from where the post office is just south of downtown all the way down to the southern suburb called barton bill. Barton bill, 73 different distilleries. Currently in the riverfront museum, located in downtown in this particular portion is calle...