Springfield in Bloom — the community-wide beautification program that challenges homeowners, businesses and nonprofit groups to bring beautiful new color and life to their street-side yards — is now in its fifth year. Since 2004, hundreds of projects have been completed in this friendly competition, creating lush new landscapes in neighborhoods and central city boulevards, […]
Sharon Whalen
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Think spring by planting the town red this fall
Regular IT readers are familiar with Springfield in Bloom (SIB), the friendly contest encouraging streetside beautification projects which will be in its fifth year in 2009. Hundreds of neighborhood and business-related projects have been completed during those first four years. The city’s beautification effort, Springfield Green, which has been a partner with Illinois Times in […]
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Welcome to Springfield
Early in 2007, several hundred journalists from around the globe came to record U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s announcement of his intention to seek election to the U.S. presidency. In the weeks that followed this media frenzy, thousands of images of our fair city appeared on countless television programs and in magazines across the continents, serving […]
