Decatur

This is RJ Kreis with your stories.

Now, Decatur is proposing a solution to the closure of the Oasis Day Center.

Mayor Julie Moore-Wolf says the city has submitted a proposal to acquire the former facility from Heritage Behavioral Health Center and partner with the Salvation Army to reopen it as a day shelter for people who are homeless.

The mayor is asking Heritage to sell the property for a dollar or a reasonable negotiated price.

The city is awaiting a response as concerns grow about the loss of critical services ahead of winter.

The Decatur Regional Chamber of Commerce will host their 73rd Annual Community Thanksgiving Luncheon on November 24th at the Decatur Conference Center and Hotel.

This year's featured speaker is Skeff Distributing Company President and CEO John Skeffington.

Doors open at 1115 with lunch at noon.

So they would

spend the year at Stephen Decatur under this scenario before going to MacArthur High School for their final three years.

This one's the hardest for me to like – I have no idea whether it's a good idea or not.

It's just very complicated.

We see MacArthur in this model as one high school model.

but with two campuses.

So Stephen Decatur as a ninth grade center would collaborate and work hand in hand with MacArthur.

In other words, all those students at the ninth grade academy would have full access to the 1012 MacArthur High School and would be considered as part of that high school.

And Paul Swanson, who's head of Brown's Chicken, who's sponsoring this affair on this Saturday, Day of the chicken, as it were.

Mr. Swanson hailing from Decatur, Illinois, has already thrown out the first ball.

The umpires have just been introduced by Walt Jacobs, who's the PA announcer here at Wrigley Field.

In a moment, the Chicago Cubs will be taking the field.

Buyers & Company, WSOY, 1340 AM, 103.3 FM, streaming live at nowdecatur.com.

Good morning and welcome from a very dark downtown Decatur as we are ready to rock and roll for the next three hours.

Hope you can stick with us.

If not, you can always check out the podcast at your leisure at nowdecatur.com or wherever you get your podcast.

But the special edition of Sport Talk with Brad Underwood will start at 5.30 p.m. tonight.

Uh, that evening with Brad Underwood.

And then there is the tailgate show, uh, the pre-show, uh, featuring Nick and Luke, uh, presented by Decatur Pool and Spa, Secret Lee Insurance Services.

Uh, tune in beginning at 4.30, uh, uh, uh, on WSOY, uh, or you can just do it on your phone in the lobbies waiting to get in, whatever you want to do.

Good morning and welcome to the Thursday edition of Buyers & Company.

City Hall Insider, former mayor of Decatur, publisher of the Decatur Tribune.

Paul Osborne in studios.

Plus, we'll check in with Mark Topper and Topper on sports.

Literally texting from the car after deciding who gets in.

Yeah.

Sometimes it's like, Hey, you're coming with me to Decatur.

Yeah.

Reaching the county of Macon, they halted for a period, and during the same month, March, the lincoln family settled on the north bank of the sangamon river about ten miles in a westerly direction from decatur they reared a log cabin upon their new location into which the family removed the next improvement was a rail fence sufficient to surround ten acres of ground for which young lincoln assisted in splitting the rails the identical rails which afterward became the theme of joke, song, and story.

Of their history, the following incident is related.

During the sitting of the Republican State Convention at Decatur, a banner, attached to two of these rails and bearing an appropriate inscription, was brought into the assemblage and formally presented to that body.

amid a scene of unparalleled enthusiasm.

After that,

We were down.

They lived down in Decatur, Illinois at the time.

We went down.

rake their yard, the leaves and all that.

And what I mean by that is so many people poured into me, even as a young child.

I got my start at the Antioch Baptist Church in Decatur, Illinois.

And I had musicians who were much older than me.

And of course, who had been at this much longer than I had.