In search of six votes for neighborhoods

By Steve Combs

In Rock Island, it’s not called the Department of Public Works, it’s Housing and Neighborhoods. Their Planning and Economic Development is known as Community and Economic Development. Thei

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Guest Opinion | Wednesday, January 7,2009

Back to the future in Enos Park

We need city cooperation to go from blight to bright

By Steve Combs

In the late 1800s it was known as the “Jewel of Springfield”! A hundred years later in 1997 it was officially classified as a “blighted community” qualified to establish its ow