Garrison Group Inc. is inching forward with its plans
to build a shopping center on the site of the old Esquire Theatre property
on South MacArthur Boulevard.
The city’s zoning commi
Don Durbin wistfully recalls his early years on the
family farm. He stalks through the tall, windswept grasses and points to
areas where his children once brushed ponies and petted hogs.
Since he was a child, Brett Dixon’s drinking
water had come from the brick-lined well in his family’s front yard.
Their home —
a quaint stone structure tucked behind a
Learning about the human body may conjure bad memories
of impenetrably thick textbooks, anatomy charts with words too big to
pronounce, and a creepy skeleton hanging in the corner of a class
Some 25 years after the idea was first
hatched to honor Abraham Lincoln with his own presidential museum,
folks will finally get a chance to see what all the fuss has been
Paulette Roberts, a veteran caseworker at
Helping Hands, is well known for her derring-do.
When fights erupt, as they inevitably do at
Springfield’s cramped and crow
The lone contested race for the Springfield
School Board features two North Side residents with professional
backgrounds in science and records of community service. Both vow
It was six years ago this week that Rep. Larry McKeon,
the first and only openly gay state lawmaker in Illinois, outed the
homosexual siblings of three Republican legislators.
McKeon lashe
The Champaign-based sister station of WCFN-TV
(Channel 49), which will begin airing a half-hour news broadcast in
the Springfield market next month, was singled out in a New
Homeless for seven years, Nancy has spent much of this
winter huddled under blankets on the front porch of a derelict building in
downtown Springfield.
The semienclosed wooden porch offers