Coming down

One building is set for demolition amid improvements at MacArthur Park

Is Milton moonlighting?

Springfield’s school superintendent is affiliated with a Chicago company

Springfield School Superintendent Walter Milton has a new job – or not.Hold Hands Chicago, a venture created by Kinney & Associates, an educational consulting firm, has some sort of deal wit

Not at the trough

At least some members of Congress resist cash

Perhaps the difficulty of making ends meet on a salary of $174,000 explains why 14 of 19 members of Congress from Illinois funneled campaign money to themselves, relatives or organizations linked to t

A lackluster performance by Madigan’s candidate

The machine is dead. Long live the machine.So went the mixed messages voters sent in last week’s primary elections.Some things went as expected, notably the 50th Senate District race between inc

The wild blue yonder

Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport goes where no airport has gone before - the airline business

What do the Wright brothers and Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport have in common?Both are aviation pioneers.The Wright brothers succeeded, but it remains to be seen whether the Springfield airport&rsquo

Buried

Oak Ridge Cemetery has serious financial problems

Oak Ridge Cemetery is short more than $900,000, and city taxpayers could be on the hook.The cemetery has six-figure shortfalls in two funds, one set up to pay burial expenses for consumers who have pu

Sewer upgrade estimated at $65 million

Rates will rise to pay for sewer upgrades aimed at preventing sewage from reaching the Sangamon River, under a plan submitted to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency by the Springfield Metro S

Parachutes get more golden at GateHouse

While revenue, circulation, stock price and profits plummet, top executives at GateHouse Media, corporate parent of the State Journal-Register, are getting bigger bonuses and cushier golden parachutes

End of the line?

The governor wants to close Tamms

Fiscal reality might finally accomplish what lawsuits and appeals to conscience could not.Gov. Pat Quinn says he wants to shut down Tamms, the state’s supermax prison about 100 miles north of th

Bullish on Springfield

Christopher Stone bets big.A newcomer to the real-estate game, the Springfield lobbyist heads a group of investors that has bought up some big chunks of fallow real-estate in recent months, including