We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. DON’T GIVE UP It was disappointing to see the Springfield City Council vote down Ward 3 Ald. Roy Williams’ resolution to put an advisory referendum on the March 17 primary ballot on whether the city […]
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Letters to the editor 11/13/25
JUST SAY NO We should reflect deeply on this question: Do we value the people and the livelihood of our community over a Texas-based AI company that has come for our land and resources (“First data center in Sangamon County,” Oct. 23)? If we do, then we should be saying no to CyrusOne’s proposal for […]
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Letters to the editor 9/25/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. NEED RESIDENTS If you want to revive downtown, you need a base of downtown residents (Springfield City Council SeeGov highlight reel, Sept. 2). The downtown merchants can’t rely on only tourist traffic. The Wyndham hotel […]
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Letters to the editor 8/28/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. DREAMGIRLS A DELIGHT Dreamgirls is the storyline of love, music and fame within competing communities struggling to make a name for themselves to reach the top of the Billboard charts. Their biggest obstacles are themselves in […]
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Letters to the editor 8/14/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — SUPPORT DOWNTOWN Downtown Springfield is becoming a ghost town, and it feels like nobody in leadership cares. The mayor, the aldermen, city departments, economic development, tourism – no one is stepping up to protect […]
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Letters to the editor 7/31/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — TURN OVER STADIUM I find it disappointing to the point of exasperation that the ownership of the Lucky Horseshoes has to resort to begging the community to pressure the Springfield Park District to live […]
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Letters to the editor 7/24/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — NOTHING NEW How many variations of this article is Illinois Times going to write (“City’s Black Caucus addresses disparities,” July 10)? It starts with broad pronouncements that everyone knows and has heard a million […]
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Letters to the editor 7/17/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — BROADER PROBLEM “Mental health is a community responsibility” is a good article (July 3). The topic deserves deeper examination, but not necessarily as a promotion for a tax increase. The problem is not unique […]
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Letters to the editor 6/25/26
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — NO THIRD STREET GREENWAY What are our leaders thinking? For over a decade, successive administrations have focused on turning the Third Street rail corridor into a multi-use trail, the Third Street greenway. Current estimates […]
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Letters to the editor 6/12/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — A GOOD CHANGE I will assume that nuns do not lie but unfortunately do fall prey to media and Democrat lies. The proposed reforms to Medicaid and food stamps would, horror of all horrors, […]
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Letters to the editor 5/22/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — KEEP PROTESTING I want to applaud Illinois Times for using good journalism to set the record straight about what U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did when she visited Springfield (“An insult […]
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Letters to the editor 5/8/25
We welcome letters. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. We edit all letters. Send them to editor@illinoistimes.com. — A MAJOR LOSS Illinois Times is to be commended for the article “A loss for Illinois farmers and food banks” (April 24). The cancellation of grants intended to enable food banks and schools to […]
