Green Urbanism fights sprawl with walkable cities

By James A. Johnston

At the May 29 Springfield Business Alliance noon luncheon the noted architect and planner Douglas Farr will present “Sustainable Urbanism,” a program that illustrates the practices that h

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News | Thursday, June 19,2003

Back to the land

With the help of an elderly widow, a group of Native Americans plans to reconstruct a 16th-century Indian village east of Carlinville

By James A. Johnston

When Joseph Standing Bear Schranz discovered an arrowhead last October lying on a forest floor near Carlinville, he knew an eight-year-old dream was about to come true. How the White Earth Ojibwa ende

Guest Opinion | Thursday, June 12,2003

Return of the Kickapoo

On June 14 qnd 15, an intertribal pow wow will commemorate the Indians who

By James A. Johnston

On June 14 and 15, for the sixth year in a row, the Grand Village of the Kickapoo Park--a few miles northeast of LeRoy, about an hour away from Springfield--will be the scene of color, sound, and danc