Life long Chicago Bears fan John Williams of Bloomington waves to a fellow employee that happens to be a Green Bay Packers fan, after work Thursday. Williams, who works as a back-hoe operator for the Bloomington Public Service Department, painted his 1977 Ford pickup three months ago. ”I got the idea from seeing a yellow S-10 with a helmet on the door, I thought I could do better” said Williams. 
Cailie Kafura of Champaign holds signs made by Lois Kain of Urbana during the “Resist the Trump Agenda” public rally at the Uptown Normal Circle in Normal Tuesday. 
Homeowner Dee Volle demonstrates some dance moves for a large work group from Group Mission Trips, a national organization hosted by St. John’s Lutheran Church in Bloomington and holding a work camp for several needy seniors in Bloomington and Normal. Volle lives on West Hovey in Normal and the group is scraping and painting her home. 
A worker for American Suncraft Co., Medway, Ohio, places guide wires that will hold a tarp while the water tower on Main Street in Normal is sandblasted and repainted, while work continues on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The tower is located between Illinois State University’s Hancock Stadium and University High School. 
Portraying the Civil War Era, Larry and Shirley Hackman, of Washington, dance a waltz to ”Yankee Doodle Dandy”, during Lincoln’s Festival in Bloomington, Saturday, July 18, 2015 on the grounds of the David Davis Mansion, 1000 Monroe Drive, Bloomington. The mansion is one of Illinois’ treasures and preserves the age when large land owners controlled the former prairie. STEVE SMEDLEY, The Pantagraph 
Robert Kingston of Monticello leans against an oak tree while re-caning a chair from the late 1800’s, outside the C.H. Moore Homestead in Clinton, during the Apple ‘n Pork Festival, Saturday, September 26, 2015. STEVE SMEDLEY, The Pantagraph 
Midwest Food Bank founder and president David Kieser of Bloomington builds pallet’s for the food distribution at the Midwest Food Bank, 1703 S. Veterans Parkway, Bloomington, Saturday, November 21, 2015. STEVE SMEDLEY, The Pantagraph 
John Cable is reflected in his framed Life Magazine cover in which he appears as the fourth soldier in line getting off a Landing Craft Infantry craft in Salerno, Italy during WWII. Cable, 86, was a United States Army Staff Sergeant who was injured twice during battle. The Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY 
Mary Strack is the owner of several Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches stores. She posed for a photo in the 207 West North Street, Normal shop which is also her home office, on Friday Jan. 7, 2010. (The Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY) 
The Mandel-Cohn home moved slowly down Front Street during the move of the historic structure Monday, November 15, 2004. The Old House Society of Bloomington-Normal arranged the move after Wesley United Methodist Church purchased the property and needed the site for an expansion project. The home was purchased privately and will be restored at its new location. (AP photo, Steve Smedley. The Pantagraph) 
Matt Potts of DESTIHL works in the new brewery at 1616 GE Road, Unit #1, Bloomington on Thursday, June 6, 2013. (The Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY) 
Surrounded by several computers, Lincoln College instructional technologist/designer Tim Foster holds an ipad with with a Microsofts Vision of The Future video playing. Foster said the video portrays dual touch surfaces and glass work stations, technology he feels will be used in the teaching field very soon. (The Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY) 
Russ Baker of Mt. Pulaski walked his dogs past a mural on the site of the Mt. Pulaski House, on the North west edge of Mt. Pulaski’s square. Abraham Lincoln stayed many times at the Mt. Pulaski house, while riding on the 8th Judicial Circuit in Logan County. The mural was painted by David Webster of Washington, Illinois and was dedicated September 10th 2003. The mural is on the side of the Roth Building, built in 1902. photo 2-9-04 
A stunning bride. 
Jacki DallaValle of Lincoln, walks past one of the Walldog’s painted signs on a brick building at Sangamon and Pulaski Streets in downtown Lincoln Thursday morning, July 14, 2011. DallaValle was on her way to shop at New Beginnings Thrift Store. The sign was painted during the Land of Lincoln Walldogs event, held July 21-24, 2004. The group of mural artists have produced several signs on brick buildings in Central Illinois, Lincoln, Atlanta and Pontiac are among the towns where the work, mostly done on brick buildings, can be seen. (The Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY) 
United Steel Workers Local 787 president Denny Robinson will retire from the Bridgestone Firestone Off Road Tire plant in Normal after 38 years. He is sitting within a mining truck tire at the plant. The Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY 
Smokey The Bear stands guard in Minong, Wisconsin. 
With sunlight streaming in through a tinted sun shade, J. T. Shew, 5, leans on a counter while hisuncle Allen Shew, samples grain, in the Chestervale Elevator scale house South of Lincoln on Tuesday Sept. 18, 2007. J.T. and his brother Dillon, 12, were waiting for dad, Ralph Shew, to finish work at the elevator, the oldest operating in Logan County. Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY 
Ted Lowers, owner and operator of Ted’s Garage, 808 West Illinois Highway 54, Clinton, stood with two antique gasoline pumps in the theme restaurant. 11-22-2004 
Bill Gossett of Lincoln shows his support during the bus tour stop outside the Doubletree Hotel Tuesday morning 
Two Blokes and a Bus partners Steffan Block, left, and Chef Jon Fritzen pose with ”Victoria”, the nickname they have given the English double decker bus they are operating. The mobile restaurant on wheels was parked along Eldorado Road in Bloomington on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. (The Pantagraph/Steve Smedley) 
Paul Behrends worked forty feet in the air as he prepared to replace a windmill with a remanufatured Aermotor on the Dusty Lane Farm south east of Ellsworth on Sunday afternoon, November 9. THE PANTAGRAPH/STEVE SMEDLEY 
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