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Mr. Kurut
Mr. Kurut respresented the Illinois State Troopers and informed us about his work and how he protects Illinois. The funniest part to me was when let people try on the gas mask. His report on his job and training for it was extremeley intense. This was an absolutely great beginning to a wonderful day. -
Mary Flowers
Representative Mary Flowers visited our school to tell us about her job as a State Representative. Mrs. Flowers told us about her goals to be the voice of the people and have minorities have a well prospering community; although others were the gun laws, pension. -
Senator Cunningham
During the Senators presentation he showed us the main differences between the House and Senate. While Senator Cunningham who recently exited the House explain why he became a Senator; as he said it was because it gave him twice the influence than it did as a Representative. He also told us about the important issues being discussed and debated in the General Assembly -
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Springfield
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History Museum
In the beginning when we visited the History Museum we were split into small groups and were assigned topics and tried to identify what they were. Later we found out what our topics were and my was Wounded Knee an event which Lakota Native Americans siezed control of ounded Knee, South Dakota. Next the entire grade plit into three groups and explored the museum on our own, in which my group visited the Ebony exhibit first. Next we visited an exhibit about Womens Suffrage -
New Salem
While visiting New Salem we had saw how the village function around Lincoln's time. During this tour we first stepped into a fairly large building where we visited a large room that had given us a history factorial backdrop before we headed out to the other houses. Next we saw a video presentation about Abraham's life there and how he came to the town. Next we split up into groups an went to visit the buildings in the town. -
Police Academy
On the 20th we visited the same academy that Mr. Kurut graduated from, while we saw how the new recruits were disciplined, respectful, and polite. During this we learned an saw the intense training process that Officer Kurut spoke of when he was telling us what it takes to be a State Trooper. -
Lincoln's Tomb
When visiting President Lincoln's Tomb we held the highest form of respect possible. We saw the buurial chamber where the entire family was burried and had a cieling made of gold. Outside was the sculpture of Lincoln's head which was supposed to give luck if you rubbed his nose. Our guide told us about how the presidents body was almost stolen when it was above ground, which made them encase it derneath cement underground. This tomb showed the upmost respect for one of the greatest president's -
The New State Capitol
When visiting the new state capital we had gotten a personal tour of the House of Representatives from Speaker of the House Michael Madigan. Luckily next thanks to Senator Cunningham we were able to go to the Senate and even the chambers some what resembled the differences . Senator Cunningham's personal tour of the entire building was amazing. While later we also met the governor Pat Quinn and we had a quick group conversation which I was told is very rare. -
War Museum
On the final day it was somewhat sad to say goodbye to Springfield and the hotel but it was not over because we went to an Alumni of MPA’s veteran war museum. It was amazing to see all the artifacts veteran’s have donated over the years for such a gallant cause. I appreciated was the dedication to his father and his best friend by praising them on the stage of his museum. I learned that Route 66 used to go to the West Coast through the town.
