Cap City | Wednesday, November 21,2012

CHEWING GUM

Ah, the sweetgum tree. Such a nice name, evoking visions of sugarplums and chocolate chips falling from cotton-candy clouds before the rainbow arrives.The truth, as we all know, is much different. Tho

Cap City | Thursday, November 15,2012

SPECIAL SKATER

By Cap City

Erin Hart has autism, but you’d never know it when she’s on the ice. The 18-year-old figure skater from Pleasant Hill, Ill., trains at Springfield’s Nelson Center ice arena twice a w

Cap City | Thursday, November 15,2012

BUSTED

By Cap City

The Sangamon County Bar Association is addressing two well-known shortages by putting another lawyer in the local courthouse while also gracing Springfield with not one but three depictions of Abraham

Cap City | Thursday, November 8,2012

PIES FOR PEACE

By Cap City

You can’t pay a lawyer with pie…or can you? The Enos Park Neighborhood Improvement Association is holding a Thanksgiving pie sale, with proceeds funding their safety and security program

Cap City | Thursday, November 8,2012

PAY UP

By Cap City

The federal government is demanding more than $61,000 from the Village of Jerome, the village treasurer has resigned and more trouble could be coming.In an Oct. 25 letter to village officials, an admi

Cap City | Thursday, November 8,2012

WATER-GATE ENDS AT SHG

By Bruce Rushton

Upon further review, Sacred Heart-Griffin High School administrators have apparently decided not to demand prosecution of nine former students who placed thousands of paper cups filled with water on t

Cap City | Thursday, November 1,2012

A PRANK AND A CRANK

By Cap City

Sangamon County prosecutors are mulling whether to file charges against nine former Sacred Heart-Griffin students who filled hundreds of paper cups with water and placed them on the floor of a school

Cap City | Thursday, November 1,2012

METER MADNESS

By Cap City

Two City Water, Light and Power retirees have reimbursed the city more than $12,000 for power bills going back as far as a decade.The retirees had been paying half what they should have for electricit

Cap City | Thursday, October 18,2012

SLOW RIDE

By Cap City

Call it Mosey On The Joliet Express.We here at Illinois Times would love to accompany Gov. Pat Quinn, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin on a demonstration of an

Cap City | Thursday, October 18,2012

FINGERPRINT YOUR KIDS

By Cap City

Mark Bott of Springfield wants to give parents something he hopes they’ll never need. Bott is the founder of Operation Kidsafe, an international program that photographs and fingerprints childre