Vol. 31, No. 23
Out of the woods
2005 in the words of the people who made news in Springfield
Party crashers
Is Illinois too “purple” to be Green?
By R. L. Nave
Naming names
HIV/AIDS groups are unsure how new reporting system will work
Labor force
The state hopes for the best as it replaces computer contractors
By Bruce Rushton
Time for a little tenderness
There’s a whole lot wrong with the world. What’s ripe?
By Fletcher Farrar
Money-gobbling war machine
Pentagon spends more than a billion of our tax dollars every single day
By Jim Hightower
E-mails from the perimeter of good taste
Will readers never learn not to trade words with me?
By Doug Bybee
Letters to the editor
In and around Springfield
Retail hell
A handful of films present the story of America’s disenfranchised class
By Marc Sigoloff
Lost in translation
The film adaptation of The Producers is slow, dull, and bloated
By Chuck Koplinski
Jacqueline Jackson
christmaspoem #2
By Jacqueline Jackson
American Life in Poetry
Edited by Ted Kooser
Long-distance relationship
Physical proximity, it would seem, is overrated
By René Spencer Saller
Redefining "Springfield Sucks"
Reviewing the highlights of the local music scene
By Tom Irwin
Erin, Nathan & Chico
@ Broadgauge
Sat., April 20, 7-9:30 p.m.
Man arrested by FBI owns property with an Illinois state trooper
By Dean Olsen
Lights out for Olde Towne Apartments
By Scott Reeder
Harold L. “Lee” Milner Feb 25, 1946 - April 17, 2024
By Illinois Times Staff
Additional raids on Asian massage parlors
