Aug 28 - Sep 3, 2003

Vol. 29, No. 5

News & Opinion

  • The highway side

    The next installment of our central Illinois detective novel. Part fifteen: “Last seen at the quick pumper”

    By Jack Clark

  • The fall of public housing

    New priorities in Washington put the squeeze on the SHA

    By IT PICKS

  • The long road home

    Reverend Roosevelt Sam Smith has returned to the land of his grandparents. Now if only it was safe to go back to Liberia.

    By Job Conger

  • Mystery Man

    Q: What “old retired schoolteacher” selected the last two police chiefs, reorganized city government, and had “extensive experience” with weapons of mass destruction?
    A: Meet Joe Wilkins

    By Dusty Rhodes

  • Did the governor tee-off on a 14-year-old girl?

    One of the most peculiar stories to come out of the Illinois State Fair concerned an animal-doping controversy. But it quickly turned into some bad publicity for Governor Rod Blagojevich.

    By Rich Miller

  • Missing the mark

    The starting point of the 1908 race riots stands squarely in front of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. What happened to the memorial marker?

    By John L. Glosser

  • A neat trade

    The lost art of window washing

    By Cindy Ladage

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