This page contains various lectures or additional stories since the publication of the book.
Lecture
November 17, 2020, Zoom Lecture with host the Jacksonville Public Library.
Pictorial Tour of the First Illinois State Hospital for the Insane
by Dr. Joe Squillace and Samantha Knox (MacMurray College Class of 2017) (December 2020)
Click the .pdf link here to access the document.
Dr. George Zeller and the OTHER First Superintendents of the Peoria State Hospital at Bartonville.
Click the link for a short .pdf write-up on the first superintendents of the Peoria State Hospital.
Photo of Peoria State Hospital on left: By Willjay - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14887466
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria_State_Hospital#/media/File:Peoria_State_Hospital.jpg
The Veteran’s Unit, Then (built 1940) and Now (2020)
Then and Now: Jacksonville State Hospital (Illinois Hospital for the Insane/Asylum) Power Coal Plant (constructed 1946-8), and abandoned, 2020.
Side-by-side, Kirkbride Architecture of State Hospitals
Photo courtesy of Indiana Medical History Museum
The Illinois State Hospital for the Insane original officers decided to travel to the Indiana State Hospital in the summer of 1847, which was based on the famous Kirkbride-style architecture, and copied their plans. You can see the similarities in the two pictures.
Photo from: Jacksonville Journal Courier, September 3, 2000.