Flint to see $100M in new projects

Flint to see $100M in new projects

FLINT, MICH.

Redevelopment projects are expected to bring more than $100 million in renovation work to Flint as the city works to recover from a lead-tainted water crisis.

Projects include the Capitol Theatre, The Ferris Wheel building and Mott Community College’s culinary school in the downtown area, The Flint Journal reported.

Other projects include a Riverfront restoration project that’s estimated to cost more than $35 million and work to demolish an old YMCA building to create affordable housing that’s expected to cost $17 million.

Ill. auto museum to feature limo once owned by Trump

VOLO, ILL.

A northern Illinois auto museum’s latest acquisition is a 1988 Cadillac limousine once owned by President Donald Trump.

The museum’s director, Brian Grams, says the Volo Auto Museum isn’t “making a political statement” by displaying the vehicle, which features gold-plated and rosewood interior embellishments.

Grams says the museum displays rare cars with interesting backstories. He says the Trump limo “certainly checks that box.”

Grams says the limo was built to be an office on wheels. It has a fax machine, television, VCR, three telephones and a paper shredder. It also has an electric bar.

Grams says he found the car in private ownership and plans to feature it in the museum’s “Cars of the Rich and Famous” exhibit.

The museum is in Volo, about 45 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. It has a 400-vehicle collection.

Lincoln Museum to host premiere of Burns’ Vietnam film

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

“The Vietnam War” is coming to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Museum in Springfield.

Museum officials say the facility will host a preview of the latest documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on Sept. 14. The event will include a showing of 15 minutes of the 10-part documentary and a panel discussion with people impacted by the war, including a military nurse, Vietnamese refugee and conscientious objector.

Burns has directed documentaries on such subjects as baseball and jazz since rising to prominence with his documentary, “The Civil War.”

The first installment of “The Vietnam War” will premiere Sept. 17 on PBS.

The event at the museum’s Union Theater will be free. To reserve seats, visit www.PresidentLincoln.Illinois.gov and click on “special event reservations.”

City bike-share program to ‘peddle’ museum’s artworks

PHILADELPHIA

The Barnes Foundation has teamed up with Philadelphia’s bicycle-sharing program to “peddle” the museum’s fine artworks.

Twenty Indego bikes are being decorated to become rolling displays of paintings by such artists as Vincent Van Gogh.

The Barnes Foundation is hoping cyclists who take the art-inspired bikes for a spin will bring more people in to see the museum’s world-class collection.

The pieces for the Indego bikes were selected through an online poll. The museum says Indego subscription holders will get free admission to the Barnes for a year after some of the bikes make their debut in September.

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