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Top Articles from Illinois - James Krohe Jr
UIS, the educational cityAge-inappropriate literature The Illinois budget is brokenThree 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, 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
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Wednesday, December 29,2010
‘Honey, where’s the snowshoes?’
Who should clear the sidewalks when it snows?
Every winter, when the snowflakes begin to fall, I would love to bring tidings of good cheer to my fellow townspeople but I can’t, because so many of their sidewalks are buried under snow. As th
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Wednesday, December 22,2010
Stay with me
Enticing tourists to linger an extra night
After 40 years, area tourism promoters still don’t have a compelling answer to the central question of their trade, which is, How ya gonnna bed ’em down in Springfield, after they’ve
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, December 16,2010
Markable authors
Which Springfield writers deserve commemoration?
On Oct. 12, on what would have been the subject’s 100th birthday, a marker was unveiled at Second and Jackson streets, noting the once-presence nearby of the boyhood home of Robert S. Fitzgerald
Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, December 9,2010
Toward a farm-fresh food system
Can central Illinoisans learn to like their broccoli?
Readers of the brand new Illinois Times might not have learned learn much about who controlled the Illinois House, but we reported so diligently where they could buy farm-fresh eggs that it became a s
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