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The Springfield Alphabet This is an alphabet done on 6" by 6" canvases. I used prairie colors: blue for sky and water, yellow for sun and corn, red for barns and bricks, green for trees and plants, brown for the rich soil. Each of the images are created on road maps since Springfield is in the center of the nation. Each of the 26 images represents some aspect of life in Springfield. See them more closely in the Springfield Alphabet album.

ARTS Prairie Art Alliance - Old Capitol Art Fair - Springfield Ballet Company - Land of Lincoln Barbershop Chorus - Illinois State Museum Art Gallery - Springfield Art Association - UIS Visual Arts Gallery - Springfield International Folk Dancers - Sweet Adeline Sound Celebration Chorus - Springfield Area Arts Council - Springfield Watercolor Society - Liturgical & Sacred Art Exhibit

BUILDINGS - Illinois State Military Museum Brinkerhoff Home Elijah Iles House Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum Dana-Thomas House Union Station Edwards Place Vachel Lindsey Home Lincoln Library

COLLE GES -- University of Illinois at Springfield Lincoln Land Community College Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Robert Morris College Springfield College in Illinois - Benedictine University

DEVOTION -- Roman Catholic Lutheran Episcopalian Greek Orthodox Baptist Methodist Presbyterian Jewish Congregational Pentecostal Mormon Christian Unitarian Islamic Apostolic Christian Scientist

EXERCISE -- Interurban Trail Lincoln Greens Eisenhower Park Washington Park Tennis Courts Pasfield Park Lost Bridge Trail Nelson Center Ice Rink Wabash Trail Bunn Park Iron Horse Triathlon Bergen Park Nelson Center Pool Gietl Park Lake Springfield Centennial Park

FESTIVALS -- International Carillon Festival Washington Street Jazz and Blues Festival Children’s Art Festival Festival of Trees First Night Springfield Capitol City Celebration Greater Downstate Bluegrass Music Festival Route 66 Mother Road Festival Ethnic Festival Indian Summer Festival Taste of Downtown

GOVERNMENT -- State Capital since 1837 Seat of Sangamon County Government

HEALTH CARE -- Memorial Medical Center St. John’s Hospital Springfield Clinic SIU Physicians & Surgeons SIU School of Medicine

ILLINOIS STATE FAIR -- Grandstand - The Arena - Ethnic Village - One Mile Track - Happy Hollow - Racehorse Barns - Junior Home Ec - Conservation World - Cattle Barns - Lincoln Stage - Illinois Building - Coliseum - Expo Building - Swine Barn - Emerson Building - Sky Glider - Orr Building - Food-A-Rama - Fire Station - Department of Agriculture - Carnival Midway - Half Mile Track - Sheep Barns - Adventure Village - Department of Natural Resources - The Fair was permanently assigned to Springfield in Jan. 1894.

JUSTICE -- 1908 Race Riot led to the formation of the NAACP Sangamon County Circuit Court Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office Springfield City Police Department U. S. Federal Court Illinois State Supreme Court Appellate Court

KINDNESS -- Habitat for Humanity Goodwill Salvation Army Contact Ministries Catholic Charities Helping Hands Central Illinois Food bank SPARC Sojourn Shelter Boys & Girls Clubs Big Brother/Big Sister St. John’s Breadline Kumler Neighborhood Ministries Washington Street Mission Mercy House Ronald McDonald House United Way Mini O’Beirne Crisis Nursery

LINCOLN -- New Salem State Historic Site - Lincoln Home National Historic Site - Lincoln Depot - Edwards Place - Lincoln-Herndon Law Office - Old State Capitol Historic Site - Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site - Lincoln Pew at First Presbyterian Church - Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library - Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum - “Here I Have Lived” Outdoor Interpretive Exhibits Abraham Lincoln moved to Springfield in April 1837.

MUSEUMS -- Illinois State Museum Illinois Fire Museum Camp Lincoln Military Museum Museum of Funeral Customs Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum Air Combat Museum Pearson Medical Museum Phil and Mary Kathryn Trutter Museum Shea’s Gas Station and Route 66 Museum I Illinois State Police Heritage Foundation Museum

NATURE -- Lincoln Memorial Gardens Adams Wildlife Sanctuary Carpenter Park Lake Springfield Riverside Park

ORCHESTRA -- Illinois Symphony Orchestra Sangamon Valley Youth Symphony

PARKS -- Washington Lincoln Iles Enos Lanphier Dreamland Comer Cox Eisenhower Rotary Cadigan Douglas Gehrmann Jaycee Kiwanis Centennial Gietl Timberbrooke Reservoir Westchester Indian Hills Lake Victoria Lindbergh Stuart Fairview Schlitt Vredenburg

QUEST -- Illinois State Archives Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Sangamon County Genealogy Society Lincoln Library Sangamon Valley Room Illinois Regional Archives Depository Sangamon County Historical Society Daughters of Union Veteran’s of the Civil War Museum

ROUTE 66 Route 66 Mother Road Festival Shea’s Route 66 Museum Cozy Dog Drive-in Route 66 Drive In Theatre

SANGAMON COUNTY Illiopolis - Buffalo Heart - Cotton Hill - Fancy Creek - Ball - Curran - Auburn - Cartwright - Mechanicsburg - Cooper - Williams - Springfield - Woodside - Auburn - Leland Grove - New Berlin - Clear Lake - Rochester - Chatham - Pawnee - Salisbury - Gardner - Loami - Tarkington Sangamon is from a Pottawatomie word “saingueemon” meaning plenty of food. Sangamon County was created on 30 January 1821 and contains 877.1 sq. miles.

THEATER Springfield Theatre Centre Springfield Muni Opera Theatre in the Park Sangamon Auditorium

UNFORGOTTEN The Georgian Restaurant B & Z Pastry Shop Tops Big Boy Illinois Watch Company Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Pillsbury Mills S. A. Barkers Co. Reisch Brewery J. Ralph Tobin & Son Avenue Food Shop Carnegie Library Clara’s Catering Ursuline Academy Sangamo Electric Moonlight Gardens Jefferson Stationers St. Nicholas Hotel Red LIon Restaurant Sangamon Dairy Orpheum Theatre Don’s Drive-In The Mill The Sugar Bowl Floyd’s Balestri’s Grill City Day School Bressmer’s Myers Brothers Brown’s Business School Norb Andy’s Tabarin F. W. Woolworth Co. Kresge’s Concordia Seminary Red Coach Inn Fishman’s Sporting Goods The Bowl Broadwell’s Drug Store Bunn School Leland Hotel Cloth World Happy Hollow Midway Hub Clothiers Fleetwood Restaurant St. John’s School of Nursing Abe Lincoln Blalock & Sons Thrifty Drug Store Jean’s Flower Shop R. F. Herndon & Co. A & P Food Stores Black Angus Steak House Icy Root Beer Stand Par-A-Dice Restaurant Reisch Shoe Shop

VETERAN American Legion Veteran’s of Foreign Wars World War II Illinois Veteran’s Memorial Illinois Korean War Memorial Illinois Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Camp Butler Cemetery Illinois State Military Museum Grand Army of the Republic Museum

WEATHER Wind Snow Ice Sleet Storm Blizzard Cold Front Rain Thunder Mist Fog Clouds Lightning Heat Humidity Dew point Sundogs Tornado Seasons

eXecutive Mansion Governors who have resided in the Mansion: Matteson Bissell Wood Yates Oglesby Palmer Oglesby Beveridge Cullom Hamilton Oglesby Fifer Altgeld Tanner Yates Deneen Dunne Lowden Small Emmerson Horner Stelle Green Stevenson Stratton Kerner Shapiro Ogilvie Walker Thompson Edgar Ryan [This canvas has a removable X over it since our current governor does not live in the mansion.]