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Talking trash
Dave Allen encounters familiar sights as he drives down alleys in Springfield’s Harvard Park neighborhood. Some alleys are relatively clean while others are filled with overflowing bins of garbage that haven’t been emptied for weeks, half-open bags of trash on the ground, trails of garbage blowing into yards and streets, discarded furniture and old mattresses. […]
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Remembering
Our annual REMEMBERING edition, the last issue of the year, reminds us small-town folks that people we thought we knew we didn’t know as well as we wish we had, and those we didn’t know, we wish we had known. It reminds us that many more have died this year than we could possibly write […]
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A push to diversify
White men from small towns. That’s the primary recruiting pool for the Springfield Police Department, which is struggling to have a more diverse workforce that better reflects the community. Although Springfield is 20% Black, only 10% of officers in the department are African American. Worse yet, not a single Black person holds a supervisory rank […]
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Winter Guide
Our annual Winter Guide has info on holiday happenings, local stores with unique gifts and activities for the whole family to enjoy. Related Related Related Related Related Stories
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Best of Springfield® 2022 Readers’ Poll
READ THE ISSUE IN PDF DIGITAL VIEW Every year, we ask our opinionated readers to tell us about their favorite people, places and things in the Springfield area. Over the decades we’ve been doing this, we’ve continued to tweak both the process and the results issue to try to keep things fresh and interesting, and […]
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Early voting expands as campaign season enters final two weeks
Early voting hours and locations greatly expanded across the state this week as the campaign season entered its final two-week stretch. Polling places opened across the city of Chicago as well. Information on early voting for each local election authority can be found on the Illinois State Board of Elections website here, or by visiting […]
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Fall Home and Garden 2022
Fall is a great time to tackle yard projects, such as planting bulbs for a spring payoff or potting herbs and other plants you can move indoors for the winter. It’s also helpful to being making plans now for your spring home improvements, so whether you’re dreaming of an outdoor kitchen or updating part of […]
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UIS faculty to vote on new contract
Unionized faculty members at University of Illinois Springfield are expected to vote in the next few days on a new four-year contract that includes pay increases each year, the union’s president says. The proposed contract settlement, which would be retroactive to August 2021 and expire in August 2025, also contains language important to faculty members […]
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Spring Guide 2022
A new acquaintance was wondering why we hadn’t met before, after having worked within blocks of each other for the past 20 years or so. “I don’t get out much,” is what I told him, although I do, but it’s to the same routine things, not much new. And for the past two years, nobody […]
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Best Films and Scenes of 2021
In his seminal memoir, Adventures in the Screen Trade, screenwriter William Goldman wrote that there is one truism in Hollywood – “Nobody knows anything.” Case in point, the gross for the opening weekend of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story was $10.5 million. Stop and think about that – the great American filmmaker of the last […]
