“Do most women wait 40 years to claim someone tried to rape them? Or is that just liberal women?” –A meme posted on my Facebook news feed by a high school friend. When I read those words, I sighed. Last December I wrote about being assaulted when I was 12. And it took me 40 years […]
Scott Reeder
Scott Reeder is a staff writer at Illinois Times.
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Who to believe? The gov or a jailhouse snitch?
Whose word is less reliable, a jailhouse snitch’s or Gov. Bruce Rauner’s? That’s a question I have been asking myself these past two weeks. You’ll remember that the governor ran four years ago on a platform of free-market capitalism and criminal justice reform. Some cynics, at the time, questioned his sincerity. Was he just trying […]
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Jeanne Ives’ GOP insurgency
“Don’t you think this will be the year of the insurgent?“ Jeanne Ives said as she strolled across the lawn of the Illinois Statehouse. Synonyms for insurgent include rebel or revolutionary, agitator, renegade, freedom fighter. Ives like to think those terms describe her candidacy. The state representative from Wheaton is challenging Gov. Bruce Rauner in […]
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Local landmark
Even in his hometown of Springfield, Mark Janus is a relatively unknown figure. Janus is a state employee who works in a nondescript office investigating child support claims. He’s also a divorced father of two adult children and he volunteers to help Boy Scouts. Until recently there was little in the 65-year-old man’s life that […]
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The GOP’s fresh face
It’s not unusual for Illinois politicians to end up in prison, but usually it happens after they are elected, not before. For Erika Harold, the only Republican running for Illinois attorney general, prison is a place she visits often as part of her ministry with Prison Fellowship. With last month’s surprise announcement by Attorney General […]
