Springfield (The Simpsons) endowed with flippered mutants. In the Season 25 episode "Homerland", he comments that the air conditioning system has never worked properly. In one episode, Mr. Burns mentions that he owns the electric company as part of his power monopoly. The design and folly of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is often rumored to be based on the troubled Trojan Nuclear Power Plant (closed in 1993 due to defects) near Matt Groening's home town of Portland, Oregon, or the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington. However, Antonia Coffman, Groening's publicist, has said that the Springfield plant's design is generic and that "the Springfield
Illinois State University (Springfield, Illinois) Illinois State University (Springfield, Illinois) Illinois State University of Springfield, Illinois is a former institution of higher learning which has has no connection, other than coincidence of name, with the present Illinois State University located in Normal, Illinois. The school was founded as The Academy in Hillsboro, Illinois in 1837, becoming Lutheran College in 1847. The college moved to Springfield in 1852, obtaining a new charter, receiving generous funding from the city residents, and changing the name to Illinois State University. Among the students at the institution during the period it was in Springfield were Robert Todd Lincoln and John