Vol. 28, No. 47
The Highway Side
The next installment of our central Illinois detective novel. Part five: Nick discovers he’s been caught snooping
By Jack Clark
Wait ’til 2007
By IT PICKS
Aldermania
The City Council’s triple threat
By Dusty Rhodes
Eastside Story
Ron Fafoglia builds a neighborhood
French for a Night
Some things never change: La Guiannee, a Gallic caroling festival, has been celebrated in Prairie du Rocher for 280 years.
By Ted Kleine
Absentee landlords
One for the union
Gentlemen, wreck your engines
Running with the demolition derby
Back to the land
With the help of an elderly widow, a group of Native Americans plans to reconstruct a 16th-century Indian village east of Carlinville
By James A. Johnston
Defender of the faith
For the last seven years, Stephen Brady—the “Pizza Man from Petersburg”—has led a crusade to clean up the Roman Catholic Church.
Confessions of a supernumerary— EXTRA!
My three-day marathon of naps and doughnuts
By Randy Erwin Skalicky
Ahead of his time?
Lawrence Johnson quits as UIS’s affirmative action officer
Read his lips
Rich Miller says he can cut the deficit without raising taxes—let him count the ways.
By Rich Miller
“The Last Great Radio Show”
By Will Burpee
Your Turn. . . 1-23-03
Your Turn. . . 6-19-03
The nutcrackers
The state’s only commercial pecan growers
By Penny Zimmerman-Wills
Going Organic
Movie Reviews
Chicago, A Guy Thing & National Security
By Chuck Koplinski
Movie Review
Alex and Emma
Lenny Bruce isn’t funny
The real legacy of the foul-mouthed comic
By Nick Gillespie
Knoepfle 6-19-03
By John Knoepfle
Bards of the Sangamo 6-19-03
Now Playing 1-23-03
By Tom Irwin
Now Playing 6-19-03
2024 Holtz Memorial Lecture
@ UIS Brookens Library
Thu., April 25, 6 p.m.
Man arrested by FBI owns property with an Illinois state trooper
By Dean Olsen
Additional raids on Asian massage parlors
Helping the Homeless. My journey and my blessing.
By Julie L Benson
A major loss for Chicago Teachers Union
