We have a Shop Local Gift Certificate Program, “Sycamore Chamber Bucks”, in which anyone may purchase certificates that are accepted at hundreds of Sycamore Chamber Member Businesses.
The certificates are issued at the Chamber office, 407 West State Street, Sycamore. Gift certificates may be purchased in the following denominations: $5, $10, $15 and $25. We accept credit cards, cash, or checks for payment.
Please continue to support these small businesses in a time of need.
Click here for a list of local member businesses that will be offering online ordering, carry out, curbside pickup, delivery, and drive-thru service: https://sycamorechamber.com/support-local/
Posted by USA Today Network with commentary added by Bob Brown
1. 'Don't Stand So Close to Me' by The Police (Sting)
2. 'Stand Back' by Stevie Nicks
3. 'So Far Away' by Carole King (and Dire Straits)
4. 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself' by Georgia Satellites
5. 'Let's Stay Together' by Al Green
6. 'Gimme Shelter' by the Rolling Stones
7. 'That's Life' by Frank Sinatra
* Is there a better song to summarize these crazy times? Leave it to Ol' Blue Eyes to summarize in 'That's Life" how we all have to roll with the punches. These lyrics seem almost prophetic from Frank Sinatra when he sang them first in 1966, about being 'back on top in June,' or hopefully before then for everyone. And, of course, the optimism that rings true today: 'That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it. I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it."
First Monday after Easter 1878 – President Rutherford B. Hayes hosts the first White House Easter Egg Roll after Congress passes a bill preventing the annual event at the Capitol for fear of damage to the landscaping.
April 14, 1828 – Noah Webster publishes the first dictionary of American-style English.
April 14, 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln is shot and mortally wounded while watching a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
April 15, 1912 – The supposedly unsinkable luxury ocean liner Titanic strikes an iceberg while crossing the Atlantic on its maiden voyage and tragically sinks with a loss of more than 1,500 lives.
April 18, 1906 – An early morning earthquake rocks San Francisco causing the deaths of over 4,000 people and destruction of 10,000 acres of property.
