Vol. 41, No. 15
Modern fur traders
Illinois trappers have game in their skins
By Bruce Rushton
Historic changes
Lincoln project loses staff, IHPA gets new leader
From Russia with gloves
Jr. Blues give hockey players from around the globe a chance to shine
By Patrick Yeagle
Workers’ comp changes cut costs
Reforms enacted in 2011 helped, but Rauner wants more
COAL ASH CONUNDRUM
By Cap City
ONE LESS SPEED TRAP
Prevailing wage debate rooted in ideology
By Rich Miller
Editor’s note 11/5/15
By Fletcher Farrar
How much ‘free speech’ can you buy?
By Jim Hightower
Breakfast of a champion
Charlie Parker’s winning way to disguise English muffins
By James Krohe Jr.
Edmund Fitzgerald sank 40 years ago
Most famous shipwreck in Great Lakes history
By Tom Emery
Outta here
Baseball by moonlight
Letters to the Editor 11/5/15
By Letters to the Editor
Arizona's lifetime welfare limit
By Jen Sorensen
Norman Rockwell 2015
By Chris Britt
Paul Prudhomme, in memoriam
By Julianne Glatz
The hurt and confused locker
By Amy Alkon
Gross miscalculation buries Truth
By Chuck Koplinski
At 92, a Springfield poet faces the future
By Rodd Whelpley
flowerpoem #3
By Jacqueline Jackson
Walk among dinosaurs
By Nan Kording
A touring comedy troupe
Sangamon Auditorium
By Tom Irwin
Guts Club
Webb Wilder
@ Boondocks
Fri., March 29, 7 p.m.
Photographing history
By Dean Olsen
John Mellencamp more than rocks
My curriculum not the reason kids can’t read
By Lucy Calkins
Home alone
By George Pawlaczyk