Open to the public beginning May 10, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” features 250 items that are being revived from years of slumber in the institute’s vast archive, with some in such a delicate state of demise that they can’t be draped on a mannequin or shown upright. These garments will lie in glass coffins — yes, like Sleeping Beauty herself.
Category: Museums
Southern Illinois home of Paul Powell, the ‘Shoebox Scandal’ politician, could soon be sold
The birthplace of one of Illinois’ more notorious politicians might soon be up for sale. Paul Powell was the Illinois secretary of state whose death in 1970 led to the discovery of $800,000 in cash in his Springfield hotel room and Capitol office.