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UIS, the educational cityThe Illinois budget is brokenAge-inappropriate literature Three into one won’t go‘Great Refrigerator Roundup’ is a bad bargainTaking the Christian out of the YMCALife in the Big House Who gets the last word?Remember to not forgetSlower than a speeding bullet
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, March 10,2011
A school by any other name
The perils of naming public buildings in a fastidious age
The good people of Chatham have built themselves a second public elementary school, to give their young the skills they will need to someday leave Chatham. The usual sorts of names for the new school
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, March 3,2011
Living too high off the hog
Springfield’s booming health care economy can’t keep living like this
Springfield has become to sick people what Decatur is to soybeans, a major regional processing center in which raw materials are processed by the latest in high-tech machinery into novel products such
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, February 24,2011
‘A neat and appropriate address’
Lincoln’s farewell to Springfield as a Guinness gag
When I lived on the east side in the 1980s, I often walked past the building now called the Lincoln Depot on my way to and from downtown. Many’s the time I found myself having to wait while a fr
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, February 17,2011
Sacred documents
Why the Constitution is not our political holy book
At my age, “constitutional issues” usually involve medicine, not the law, if only because the other kind are so complex that thinking about them makes my head hurt. A boyhood reading of Th
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, February 10,2011
Honorable ancestors
Some pitfalls in doing family history research
Thomas Schwartz has been the Illinois State Historian since 1993. Asked how he got into the racket in a 2008 interview, Mr. Schwartz recalled that he grew up surrounded by an extended family whos
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, February 3,2011
Cheap house on the prairie
Who pays for Springfield’s low-priced housing?
Each year for nearly 20 years now, the National Association of Home Builders and the Wells Fargo Bank have boiled down national real estate data into an easy-to-digest housing affordability index. Loc
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, January 27,2011
Discount-price cultural life
Barnes &%u2008Noble is poorly. What does that mean for Springfield?
Back in March of 2009, Barnes & Noble signed a new five-year lease on its store in the strip mall at Wabash and Veterans where it has been doing business since it opened in 1993. The decision was
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, January 20,2011
Mad politics
Libels and lessons learned from Tucson
I have little doubt about what we all ought to talking about after Tucson. The most pressing social issues revealed – again – by these shootings is the absence of a workable system to iden
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, January 13,2011
Riding into town on a rail
Springfield’s vanished streetcar system
If you bend down and put your ear to a railroad track, you might be able to hear a faint clanging and banging. That’s the noise of far-off cities building new public transit systems that run on
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, January 6,2011
Death and dishonor
What do the suicides of Illinois public people tell us?
The motives people have for entering the public sphere often are murky. Their motives for leaving it prematurely are usually even more so. Tim Davlin is only the latest of several Illinois public men
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