Despite appearances, the Springfield City Council’s Tuesday vote to build a homeless center in a black neighborhood, with the 8-2 vote on racial lines, wasn’t a racial issue. Just ask aldermen. Nope, just a neighborhood NIMBY deal, council members declared after rescuing their own wards from the prospect of solving the city’s homeless issue by […]
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A pattern of deceit
Illinois Times has sued the city of Springfield for refusing to release video footage documenting the fatal shooting of a mentally ill man last month by a city police officer. In refusing to turn over footage, city hall told a whopper to the media and, by extension, the public. It is an all-too-familiar story when […]
