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Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, January 27,2011
{after 1st article on article listing} Discount-price cultural life
Barnes &%u2008Noble is poorly. What does that mean for Springfield?
Back in March of 2009, Barnes & Noble signed a new five-year lease on its store in the strip mall at Wabash and Veterans where it has been doing business since it opened in 1993. The decision was
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, January 20,2011
Mad politics
Libels and lessons learned from Tucson
I have little doubt about what we all ought to talking about after Tucson. The most pressing social issues revealed – again – by these shootings is the absence of a workable system to iden
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, January 13,2011
Riding into town on a rail
Springfield’s vanished streetcar system
If you bend down and put your ear to a railroad track, you might be able to hear a faint clanging and banging. That’s the noise of far-off cities building new public transit systems that run on
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, January 6,2011
Death and dishonor
What do the suicides of Illinois public people tell us?
The motives people have for entering the public sphere often are murky. Their motives for leaving it prematurely are usually even more so. Tim Davlin is only the latest of several Illinois public men
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Wednesday, December 29,2010
‘Honey, where’s the snowshoes?’
Who should clear the sidewalks when it snows?
Every winter, when the snowflakes begin to fall, I would love to bring tidings of good cheer to my fellow townspeople but I can’t, because so many of their sidewalks are buried under snow. As th
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Wednesday, December 22,2010
Stay with me
Enticing tourists to linger an extra night
After 40 years, area tourism promoters still don’t have a compelling answer to the central question of their trade, which is, How ya gonnna bed ’em down in Springfield, after they’ve
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, December 16,2010
Markable authors
Which Springfield writers deserve commemoration?
On Oct. 12, on what would have been the subject’s 100th birthday, a marker was unveiled at Second and Jackson streets, noting the once-presence nearby of the boyhood home of Robert S. Fitzgerald
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, December 9,2010
Toward a farm-fresh food system
Can central Illinoisans learn to like their broccoli?
Readers of the brand new Illinois Times might not have learned learn much about who controlled the Illinois House, but we reported so diligently where they could buy farm-fresh eggs that it became a s
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, December 2,2010
Warrior days
My days as a hardwood hero
It’s that time of year again, when youth gangs dressed improbably in bloomers and armed with basketballs rumble at the gym to defend the honor of the Red and Black or the Green and White –
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Wednesday, November 24,2010
Monument to a dead building
Display the “lost” lintel from the old Lincoln Library
What, I wonder, is the overdue fine on a library lintel that was lost for 36 years? The carved stone lintel that stood atop the main entrance to the old library building had been salvaged when the bui
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