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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, August 9,2012
Carp diem
What are the leaping fish trying to tell us?
The two Old Friends (I am told) were sitting at breakfast. Old Friend No. 1 recalled the summer nights of her youth when she would join her beau on the banks of Lake Springfield, there to mix Wheaties
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, August 2,2012
Criminal injustice
The soft case for hard time for Bill Cellini
The feds want Bill Cellini to get at least six and a half years in a steel box when he is sentenced in October in Chicago. His lawyers have argued that the feds seem to forget that Cellini was not con
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, July 26,2012
Fiscalizing land use policy
Good for the City of Springfield, yes, but for the city?
“People,” goes an old political adage, “vote their pocketbooks.” That goes for people in elected office too.A diligent reader attended a Springfield Park Board meeting at which
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, July 19,2012
The message from the graves
What do the Oneota teach us about ourselves?
The other day a passing canoeist (who else?) found an unusual pottery fragment on a sandbar in the Sangamon between Springfield and Petersburg. The find prompted the usual questions? How old is it? Wh
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, July 12,2012
The twenty acre wood
Should Griffin Woods be spared “development”?
Few of our readers know the words and music to “Woodman, Spare that Tree,” a mawkish ballad that was a hit in the 1830s. Instead they are singing the blues about the destruction of Griffin
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, July 5,2012
Kumbaya around the campfire
Jim Edgar tries to bridge the Chicago-Downstate divide
Jim Edgar is the closest thing the Illinois Republican Party has to a sage. His long career in elective office made him wise – wise enough anyway to retire from elective office – and he ge
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, June 28,2012
How zoning works
Was rezoning for another supermarket in the city’s interest?
If a woods fall and eight aldermen are not listening, does it make a sound? A few days ago the Springfield city council voted 8-2 to replace Griffin Woods, the 20-acre patch of forest at Bruns Lane an
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, June 21,2012
Who pays for what?
Considering downtown redevelopment in its metropolitan context
A seven-member team of urban paramedics known as a Sustainable Design Assessment Team recently spent three days touring Springfield’s city center, greater downtown Springfield. They were charged
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, June 14,2012
White elephant
What to do when White Oaks is gone
A planned new “patioscape” on the parking lot side of the former White Oaks Cinema will provide outdoor seating for customers of the shops and eateries expected to move into the converted
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, June 7,2012
New Beijings
Might immigrants come to America to farm our universities?
I have often lamented here the continuing decline in the population of Illinois’ rural parts. (See “Devoid of life,” July 14, 2011.) Like a great many readers, I have roots in centra
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