I’ve been in the Hancock County Courthouse in Carthage, Illinois numerous times over the past thirty-five years. It is a beautiful building and is well-maintained by the County Board. It’s the third courthouse the county has had and was constructed in the early 20th century. I really had not given much thought to the construction […]

Theodore Trautvetter went missing from Warsaw, Illinois in January of 1890. He was eventually found in Kansas. Many of the hard details of his disappearance are unknown. There are a few details of the search for Trautvetter that center on dreams and psychics that are known. There’s something of an irony in that. The disappearance […]