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Discovering the east side

A new study reveals the rich history of African-American life in Springfield

By Erika Holst
 A. Morris Williams came to Springfield as a 23-year-old cobbler in 1902. Within five years he had obtained a law degree, which he put to use helping fellow African-Americans file retribution cla...
News

History on the block

Home scheduled for auction

By Bruce Rushton
 Springfield has fewer than three dozen sites on the National Register of Historic Places. One of them is hitting the auction block.The Freeman-Hughes home at the intersection of West Monroe and...
News

HOTEL REDUX

By Bruce Rushton
 The city of Springfield wants more information from developers of a proposed $56 million downtown hotel-apartment complex that would be built with $7.65 million in public money via tax increment...
News

Muhs leaves SJ-R

Staff walks out with her

By Bruce Rushton
 The entire State Journal-Register newsroom escorted now former editor Angie Muhs as she was walked out of the building Monday by general manager Eugene Robinson after submitting her re...
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Pritzker on pot

There's a better way than this

By Bruce Rushton
 If Gov. J.B. Pritzker and lawmakers who back legal pot have to wait until next year, it will be their own fault. And we might be better off.With less than a month left in the legislative session...

Bad timing for Pritzker

By Rich Miller
 If you listen closely to what Democratic state Reps. Sam Yingling and Jonathan Carroll are saying in public about their opposition to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s graduated income tax proposal, they a...

Editor's note 5/16/19

By Fletcher Farrar
This week’s cover photo, “Julia’s Blue Moon Club, 1945” illustrates both the rich cultural history of Springfield’s African-American community and the fragile nature of its physical structur...
Books

Fiction by a fact man

A new novel by Taylor Pensoneau, author of books about Illinois politicians and Illinois gangsters

By Karen Ackerman Witter
 Taylor Pensoneau’s name is familiar in these environs. He’s known for his long affiliation with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writing about Illinois politics, his influential role with the Ill...
Food

Southeast by Southwest

By Peter Glatz
 I jump on my bike and head to my neighborhood grocery store, a five-minute ride from my apartment. On the way I make a quick stop at Lang Bakery for a banh mi sandwich and a cup of Vietnamese ic...
Music - Tom Irwin

More May music

By Tom Irwin
 One of these days this weather will behave as it should, but until then we must continue to grapple with what we got and enjoy the live music where we can. We like to welcome first-time performe...
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Movies in the Park

By Stacie Lewis
 This summer the Springfield Park District will host a series of outdoor monthly movies.  Each movie will begin at dusk, or around 8 p.m.  All of the movies are family-friendly and free...

50 years since Stonewall

By Stacie Lewis
 The 1950s and 60s were a time when gay Americans faced an anti-gay legal system. Police raids on gay bars were usual and tensions between the two groups were already high in the early morning ho...

Discovering the east side

A new study reveals the rich history of African-American life in Springfield

By Erika Holst
 A. Morris Williams came to Springfield as a 23-year-old cobbler in 1902. Within five years he had obtained a law degree, which he put to use helping fellow African-Americans file retribution cla...

Fiction by a fact man

A new novel by Taylor Pensoneau, author of books about Illinois politicians and Illinois gangsters

By Karen Ackerman Witter
 Taylor Pensoneau’s name is familiar in these environs. He’s known for his long affiliation with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writing about Illinois politics, his influential role with the Ill...

HOTEL REDUX

By Bruce Rushton
 The city of Springfield wants more information from developers of a proposed $56 million downtown hotel-apartment complex that would be built with $7.65 million in public money via tax increment...

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