Summer surge: Convention season heats up in downtown Springfield – WAND (Decatur)

"The tourism industry in Springfield and Sangamon County produced $563 million last year in tourism revenue," said Visit Springfield Marketing Manager Amy Beadle. "Right now we're piecing up 5 percent in total overall hotel revenue, at the end of May this year over last year. And last year, we were up about 33 percent over the previous year."

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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case

Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.

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