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Illinois - James Krohe Jr | Thursday, February 10,2011

Honorable ancestors

Some pitfalls in doing family history research

By James Krohe Jr.
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?

By James Krohe Jr.
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?

By James Krohe Jr.
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

By James Krohe Jr.
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

By James Krohe Jr.
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?

By James Krohe Jr.
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?

By James Krohe Jr.
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

By James Krohe Jr.
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?

By James Krohe Jr.
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?

By James Krohe Jr.
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