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Election integrity up close
How democracy works at the ballot box
By Dusty Rhodes
Tags: Opinion
Hit and run
What kind of man would run over me and my dog and leave us both for dead? I decided to find out.
Tags: News, Video
Far from home
Illinois sends students with special needs out of state, at high cost to troubled teens.
Tags: News
The Love U Give
Tags: News, Feature
One answer to the teacher shortage
When I lost my dog
I found more than I ever expected
Tags: Opinion, Upon Further Review, Opinion
A force of nature
JULIANNE GLATZ Sept. 11, 1953 - Feb. 4, 2016
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Remembering
Speaking out of school
Former guidance dean reports from the front lines on District 186 racial disparities
Home-grown virtuoso
After beating string players twice his age, Springfield's Clayton Penrose-Whitmore moved on — to Chicago, Detroit and Carnegie Hall
Inquiring mind wants to go
Nosy writer has been inspired by place where the powerful sometimes trample the innocent
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Dusty Rhodes: Fresh Ink
The plot sickens
Former SPD cop learns her mother’s Burr Oak grave was likely plundered, resold
Shades of gray
Friends of bicyclist who died in a crash are haunted by new DUI charges against motorist
No strings attached
Deal’s new contract with Illinois Symphony frees her to roam
Tags: News, News
Private hell
Mentally ill Tamms inmate dies in solitary confinement
Teching things to extremes
A view inside opposing camps of the gizmo revolution
Tougher than Guantanamo
Illinois%uFFFD supermax prison with no way out
Boy wonder
Young state police director changes troops attitude, but not much else
Peace begins on Hazel Lane
Hope Institute and its neighbors are talking. Theres hope for the world.
High-octane intervention
Parole officers near-death experience sends him searching for the gas-pump lady
The end of the Prairie House era
Art gallery is closing because Edith Myers, 92, plans to retire
Putting the leader in cheerleader
At Lanphier High, three brave boys add fresh bounce to the rah-rah squad
Out of tune
Musicians arent the only Illinois Symphony players disenchanted with conductor Karen Lynne Deal
To get fresh teachers, grow your own
Nikki Moore belongs in a classroom, but she didnt know that at first
Orchestra hires interim executive director
The long road
Deidre Lockhart, now a professional with a masters degree, reflects on her colorful past
Sunshine 66 Hotel Music Festival
@ Route 66 Hotel and Conference Center
Fri., March 29, 5 p.m.-3 a.m. and Sat., March 30, 12 p.m.-3 a.m.
My curriculum not the reason kids can’t read
By Lucy Calkins
Photographing history
By Dean Olsen
John Mellencamp more than rocks
By Tom Irwin
Home alone
By George Pawlaczyk