Cap City | Thursday, April 11,2013

DEMOCRACY IN JEROME

The Springfield School Board is an exercise in chaos. The Springfield Park District is without an executive director or solid finances. You wouldn’t know it from turnout at this week’s ele

Cap City | Thursday, April 11,2013

GARDEN RUN

By Cap City

In 1936, Harriet Knudson of Springfield helped create a sanctuary on the then-new Springfield Lake for plants native to Abe Lincoln’s home states of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Today, that s

Cap City | Thursday, April 4,2013

SPRINGFIELD MARATHON

By Cap City

Running has become a pretty big deal in Springfield, and now it’s about to get bigger. Bill Stokes of Springfield, a longtime volunteer for the Springfield Road Runners Club, is organizing a mar

Cap City | Thursday, April 4,2013

THE KIND SIDE

By Cap City

Actor Quinton Aaron, who portrayed Michael “Big Mike” Oher in the hit film The Blind Side, also starring Sandra Bullock, will be at Quaker Steak and Lube, 1121 W. Lincolnshire Blvd., on Sa

Cap City | Thursday, March 21,2013

FREE AT LAST

By Cap City

Locked up for 14 years in a southern Illinois prison, Chicago native Anthony Murray made a difficult choice: he took responsibility for a murder he says he didn’t commit in order to secure his r

Cap City | Thursday, March 21,2013

THIS OLD PARTY HOUSE

By Cap City

After a $36,000 workover, the dining room at Edwards Place is restored and ready to come alive like it did on Feb. 10, 1863. Anna Ridgely described in her diary the party that night at the home of Mrs

Cap City | Thursday, March 14,2013

SPRINGFIELD LEAKS UNMASKED

By Cap City

Guess who showed up last Friday at Illinois State Police headquarters at the same time as we did to pick up a copy of reports on the DUI arrest of state auditor general William Holland? Calvin Christi

Cap City | Thursday, March 14,2013

FIXING FORECLOSURES

By Cap City

Springfield continues to struggle with abandoned houses, despite efforts by the city and several nonprofit groups to tear down the worst ones. So it’s welcome news that last month, Gov. Pat Quin

Cap City | Thursday, March 7,2013

SCHOOL BOARD FORUMS

By Cap City

There’s been a lot of public anger lately about the Springfield School Board, which on Tuesday voted a second time to close a popular middle school that appears to be helping to “close the

Cap City | Thursday, March 7,2013

FLAGS FOREVER

By Cap City

Illinois still has its Civil War regimental flags and, although most of them have been in storage for decades due to degradation, they’ve still been open for public viewing. The catch was that y