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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If only Helen Burkhiser had read Little House on the Prairie when she first began teaching school in 1937, Mankato,…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.In the fall of 1849, some 900 Swedish immigrants gathered in a Swedish church in Chicago to begin the trek across the…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.On May 5th 1868, General John A. Logan, Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued General Orders no.…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Those of you who doubt that a straw can actually break a camel's back, or that a kingdom can be lost for want of a nail…

Attention hunters and fishers! Every year bald eagles suffer and die as a result of lead poisoning from uninformed hunters. This year, however, there has been an alarming increase in the number of eagles found with this condition. In reference to an article recently published by The Des Moines Register, Iowa bird rescue Saving Our Avian Resources (acronym SOAR) have treated 14 eagles with lead poisoning so far this year when usually their numbers are 5 or 6 this time of year.

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.To C. M. Junkins and his wife from Fairfield, Iowa, keeping a log of the maiden voyage of the steamboat “Morning Star”…

Jared Abbott, director of the Center for Working Class Politics, talks about the realignment of working class voters to the Republicans and Trump, how Democrats can win them back, the importance of proper messaging and language, the tie between economic and cultural issues, and presidential candidates with the most appeal to working class voters.

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.The devout band of pioneers who founded the town of Galesburg out on the Illinois prairie in 1837 were strict in their…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.When Mary Jane Wiley McCaw arrived in Rock Island in 1843 and settled her eight children in an abandoned schoolhouse on…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.In 1960, when Japanese Emperor Akihito visited Chicago, Mayor Richard J. Daley presented him with a bluegill from the…