Springfield (Guiding Light)
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Springfield is the setting of the television soap opera Guiding Light.
[edit] Location
The show was proximal to other midwestern soap cities, such as Bay City and Oakdale. Bay City and Oakdale, in the storyline, are located in the state of Illinois (in real life, there is an unrelated Oakdale, Illinois), so, ostensibly, Springfield would also be in the same state. However, Springfield, Illinois is the state capital and the town represented on Guiding Light is much smaller. Also, no hints have ever been dropped that the town was the capital of the state like it is in real life. In other references, most recently in a check written by the character Alexandra Spaulding (played by Marj Dusay), Springfield is a generic city merely located in "U.S.A.". The original setting of Guiding Light was Selby Flats, California, and the location changed to Springfield in 1966 when the show's core family, the Bauers, relocated there.