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Top Articles from Illinois - James Krohe Jr
UIS, the educational cityAge-inappropriate literature The Illinois budget is brokenThree into one won’t go‘Great Refrigerator Roundup’ is a bad bargainTaking the Christian out of the YMCALife in the Big House Who gets the last word?Remember to not forgetSlower than a speeding bullet
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, July 15,2010
Illinois’ Imelda
Blago proves better at buying than selling out
First, the public confession. “My name is Milorad Blagojevich, and I’m a shopaholic.” Next comes the recovery, and the book recounting how he hit bottom – a landing cushioned b
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, July 8,2010
Fury like Armageddon
The Midwest faces the prospect of the Big One
The foundations of Springfield institutions will crack and sway. Structures long thought impregnable will topple; a long-familiar landscape with be altered beyond recognition. No, it is not the convic
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, July 1,2010
Talk to me
The audiobook goes from public service into product
It is a rare human being who does not enjoy being read to. The soothing tones of the mother at the bedside, reading us to sleep, the soothing tones of the politician, reading from a teleprompter, read
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, June 24,2010
Reinventing the past
Springfield’s surprising tradition of industrial invention
Building new businesses based on new ideas is the central axiom of the near-science of economic development. Sangamon County’s would-be Edisons in the medical field recently were invited to subm
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, June 17,2010
Something about a man in uniform
Rep. Mark Kirk suffers a self-inflicted battle wound
You wouldn’t think it was possible for a soldier to shoot himself in the back while marching toward the front line, but Congressman Mark “Don’t Get Fooled Again” Kirk has manag
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, June 10,2010
Cheeseparing in the Capitol complex
Will a new Stratton Building be a better one?
The William G. Stratton Building – eyesore, health risk, money trap – has gotten a reprieve. It has been sitting on Death Row since 2007, when the State of Illinois launched an inquiry and
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, June 3,2010
Treasures from faraway seas
Attending from the University of Shadid in the ’60s
The advantage of pursuing an education in a bookshop rather than a school is that at the bookshop young readers can pick out books that teachers and parents think aren’t good for you. I had boug
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, May 27,2010
Making Springfield a better place
Readers recall Shadid’s Book Mart
“‘Intellectual oasis’ might be asking the venerable place to shoulder more weight than it could plausibly bear, but homage is overdue.” I was trading anecdotes about Shadid&rsq
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, May 20,2010
Noise about noise
The noise from boom cars is confusing Springfield aldermen
Were a boom car to drive past city hall while Springfield’s city council was in session, the din would make it impossible to hear what the aldermen were saying. This is the sole public advantage
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, May 13,2010
Yielding to nonsense
The General Assembly makes pedestrians less safe
A General Assembly unable to pass the laws that are needed must pass something, and so busies itself passing laws that are not. One of these is Illinois House Bill 43, which in round figures demands t
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