From a city festival to a college campus to your local gas station, food trucks are filling the parking lots and parks. Typical menus include foods such as hot dogs, tacos, pizza, ice cream, hamburgers, French fries, sandwiches, donuts, milkshakes, coffee, burritos, and tortillas. Some, like ice cream trucks, focus upon a particular food. Others, […]
In May of 2017 each of the 650 low-income students at Pepperidge Elementary in North Charleston, South Carolina received a new bike, helmet, and bike lock thanks to the work of Katie Blomquist, a first-grade teacher. In an interview with national media, she explained how the idea developed: “Over the years, after talking with students, […]
Almost a hundred years ago, several geological surveys commissioned by Standard Oil revealed a seven-foot tall seam of coal in the ground at Schoper, Illinois, located about eight miles from Carlinville. As an added bonus, this seam of coal was near the Chicago and Alton rail line which ran between the refineries in Wood River […]