Cap City | Thursday, November 10,2011

OLD MAIN

Sometimes stuff just breaks.That’s the assessment from the city of Springfield, which shut down Fifth Street in downtown last week after a 10-inch water main burst, heaving the street that crack

Cap City | Thursday, November 10,2011

HY-VEE LOVE FEST

By Cap City

No one is predicting pitchforks and torches at a neighborhood meeting called by Hy-Vee to explain the Iowa-based company’s proposal for a supermarket at the site of the vacant Kmart building on

Cap City | Thursday, November 3,2011

RENAME HIGH-SPEED RAIL

By Cap City

Is a train that averages less than 70 mph between St. Louis and Chicago really high-speed rail?It is according to the government, which is spending more than $1 billion to improve Union Pacific track

Cap City | Thursday, November 3,2011

GUARANTEED GREEN

By Cap City

The Springfield Green Business Network, formed a year ago, has developed a “green” certification program that allows businesses to track their progress toward becoming more environmentally

Cap City | Thursday, October 20,2011

TRASH IT, THE RIGHT WAY

By Cap City

Medicine cabinet overflowing with expired prescriptions? Don’t know what to do with the bulky television you replaced with a sleek flatscreen? Consider October your lucky month.The Sangamon Coun

Cap City | Thursday, October 20,2011

SOLAR COLLECTORS

By Cap City

Trick or treating for pork-and-beans?Believe it.Solar Universe: Central Illinois is teaming with Central Illinois Foodbank to collect food for the needy on Halloween. The company, which helps get peop

Cap City | Thursday, October 13,2011

PRESERVATIONIST OF THE YEAR

By Cap City

Already recognized by the state, Springfield’s Tony Leone got his latest kudos from the city. On Monday, the vocal advocate for saving old structures was named 2011 Preservationist of the Year b

Cap City | Thursday, October 13,2011

CASH ON THE BARREL HEAD

By Cap City

The Barrel Head is scheduled to go on the auction block.The popular Jerome watering hole closed over Labor Day weekend in the midst of a foreclosure battle between owner Kevin Davlin and Illinois Nati

Cap City | Thursday, October 6,2011

URBAN PIONEER HOUSE TOUR

By Cap City

Steve Combs is not a real-estate agent, and the first-ever Urban Pioneer Tour set for Saturday in Enos Park is hardly a street-of-dreams showcase.“We’re looking for people who, first of al

Cap City | Thursday, October 6,2011

THIRD IN CRIME? HUH?

By Cap City

Even the folks at Forbes magazine who say that Lincoln’s hometown is the third most-dangerous city in America profess themselves puzzled.“The Illinois state capital confounds analysts who