West Baden Springs Hotel News
- Saving a Rookwood Fireplace Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 10:32AMThe 2007 reopening of West Baden Springs Hotel in southern Indiana ranks as one of America’s finest architectural renovations in recent memory. With its magnificent dome standing 130 feet high above a grand atrium, spanning 208 feet across that atrium’s floor and above five circular floors of hotel rooms that look into the space, it (almost) is like a built-environment equivalent of looking at ...
- A barnstorming time in Indiana Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 7:42AMStarting Friday, six teams from around the Midwest will be barnstorming French Lick, Ind., to play vintage "base ball," harkening to the rules circa 1864.
- History Notes Monday, June 6, 2011 @ 12:00AMBusiness milestones through the years.
- French Lick Resort Developer Bill Cook Passes Away Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 11:26AMGolf resort developer and medical device mogul William Alfred Cook, 80, died April 15 in Bloomington, Ind. From a back bedroom in a Bloomington, Ind., apartment, Cook and his wife, Gayle, grew a mom-and-pop company that pioneered vascular medicine into a firm that today employs 10,000 worldwide.
- Southern Indiana braces for worst floods in decade Tuesday, April 26, 2011 @ 9:06AMUTICA mdash; Counties began filling thousands of sandbags, a historic hotel was closed and residents along rivers scrambled to move their belongings to higher ground Monday as southern Indiana prepared for what weather officials said could be the worst flooding in a decade.
- Family, friends remember Bill Cook at gala Monday, April 18, 2011 @ 9:55AMHe was a successful businessman, a philanthropist at heart and above all a Hoosier. William A. Cook was the founder of the Cook Group. He was a pioneer in the development of live-saving, minimally invasive medical device technology. He was a successful businessman, a philanthropist at heart and above all a Hoosier.
- Indiana Landmark Center Officially Opens Saturday, April 16, 2011 @ 9:36PMThe grand opening was held Saturday for the Indiana Landmark Center in downtown Indianapolis. Philanthropist Bill Cook donated $10 million for its renovations.
- Bill Cook, Indiana's richest man, dies at 80 Saturday, April 16, 2011 @ 9:58AMBill Cook donated millions to charitable organizations throughout the state, among them the new state headquarters for Indiana Landmarks in Indianapolis.
- Billionaire Bill Cook dies Friday, April 15, 2011 @ 11:25PMBLOOMINGTON - William A. Cook, founder of the Cook Group global network of companies and a pioneer in the development of life-saving minimally invasive medical device technology, died Friday at approximately 4:30 p.m. at his Bloomington home of congestive heart failure. He was 80.
- MAC Construction & Excavating may settle union complaint Wednesday, February 9, 2011 @ 1:18AMThe complaint involves multiple union bodies including the Indiana Construction Network, whose head official said Tuesday he’s still not seen a copy of the proposed settlement.
- SO COLD THE RIVER Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 9:29PMI strongly suggest you go to a bookstore and pick up SO COLD THE RIVER, Michael Koryta’s latest novel, and read the first sentence. I assure you that you’ll be as hooked as I was --- and the rest of the novel is every bit as good and imaginative as that opening line.
- Natalie Cole Live in Concert September 24 at French Lick Resort Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 8:00AMFrench Lick Resort to host first of only two Midwest concerts
- Book Review | So Cold the River: Setting springs to life in support of suspense Sunday, June 20, 2010 @ 4:41AMIt's not just the supernatural chills that make a horror novel work.
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