Perhaps it was just too good to be true. For months, the little house at 830 South College Street known as “the Space” has been home to a casual collection of worthy causes such as the Heartland Peace Center, the Springfield Green Party, and the Springfield Independent Media Center. The Space was established by the […]
Ted Keylon
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Live Poet’s Society
In the mid-1980 a Chicago construction worker named Marc Smith was organizing an open-mic poetry night at the Green Mill, an Uptown jazz club once famous for its association with Al Capone. Smith had selected the venue because he hated poetry readings–they were far too genteel. He wanted to turn his evening into a knock-down […]
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Still the Space
If struggle is a great teacher, Marc Sanson has already learned its lessons well. Every month when the rent comes due on the tiny white house at 830 S. College dubbed “the Space,” Sanson seems to be counting his pennies. Yet just when he considers declaring a public state of emergency, the money miraculously comes […]
