Victims remembered year after Springfield mass shooting
STEVEN SPEARIE, State Journal-Register
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Pastor Dave Johnson of the South Fork Church of Christ in Rochester, Ill., and also the Chaplain of the Springfield Police Dept., served in support of the families at the reunification center at Magro s Meats & Produce following the shooting last year at the Bunn-O-Matic facility on Stevenson Drive in Springfield, Ill., poses on June 24, 2021. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)Justin L. Fowler/AP
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) Dave Johnson was with his son having lunch, a delayed Father’s Day get-together at Los Rancheros’ outdoor tent on the far southwest side last June 26, when it suddenly seemed like “every siren in the city” started going off.
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Each year, we comb through our archives to look back on the biggest stories of the year that is drawing to a close, and we assemble a list of the stories that have had the biggest impact or generated the most discussion locally. To be honest, we could have probably constructed a top ten almost exclusively out of the various ways that the coronavirus pandemic has impacted our lives. But a lot of other things also happened this year.
We dive into the list in more depth on our weekend public affairs show “Podium,” heard on WMAY and our sister stations WNNS (98.7) and WQLZ (97.7), and also available on demand here at wmay.com. But here’s a quick look back at how we viewed and ranked the biggest state and local stories of the year: