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Who are the poor?
Shock and awe follow, with reactions segregated along class lines. Oliver is beaten on the head with a ladle, the master rushes to inform his wealthy bosses of this outrage, and Mr. Limbkins, a well-fed gentleman who sits in the highest chair, declares, “I know that boy will be hung.

Boomerangers
The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce is talking industrial parks as the way to make Greater Springfield – which I prefer to think of as Bigger Springfield – a Great Place to Do Business. Springfield’s economic development plans aim to import companies or expand one already in the city.

Something big is happening: Occupy Together
In a September article, Bellafante dismissed the young people’s effort as “fractured and airy,” calling it a “carnival” in an “intellectual vacuum.” Their cause is so “diffuse and leaderless,” she wrote, that its purpose is “virtually impossible to decipher.

LETTERS
Currently airing on PBS-TV, “Prohibition” explains how the Volstead Act changed America. One program stated “Prohibition had been enacted to forestall change; to put and end to alcoholism, safeguard the American family (and) to re-establish the moral supremacy of small town Protestant America.

Who are the poor?
Looking at ethnicity is tricky because of the fluidity of self-identification and category definitions – people of Hispanic origins, for example, are counted in two different categories. Still, this data is educational. There are 31.6 million “White” or 19.

Sparks fly over electricity appointee
The governor is a big cheerleader for alternative power like wind and solar. But Pruitt, whose main job is negotiating contracts with electricity generators on behalf of consumers, refused to sign some alt energy contracts because they’d cost consumers too much money.

Treasure Hunter strikes gold
The filing came after he was sued by Attorney General Lisa Madigan for alleged violations of consumer protection and deceptive business practices statutes by a Parsons company that sold fireworks, some deemed illegal by the state fire marshal.

CASH ON THE BARREL HEAD
The popular Jerome watering hole closed over Labor Day weekend in the midst of a foreclosure battle between owner Kevin Davlin and Illinois National Bank, which says that it is owed $1.4 million.

PRESERVATIONIST OF THE YEAR
Already recognized by the state, Springfield’s Tony Leone got his latest kudos from the city. On Monday, the vocal advocate for saving old structures was named 2011 Preservationist of the Year by Mayor Mike Houston and the Springfield Historic Sites Commission.

Mayor Houston withdraws a controversial nomination
Robinson could not be reached for comment. The nomination became public on Oct. 4, but Houston changed his mind four days later after aldermen became aware of Robinson’s past. Houston said that he knew that Robinson had been removed as police chief, but that he did not know about payouts to employees who sued the city.

Chimney sweep is sweeping up
It’s an “aha” moment that’s been repeated thousands of times by a man who’s been sweeping Springfield’s chimneys for nearly four decades, and it never fails – Klein says he once received a thank-you card from parents who credited the trick with giving them one more year to hang stockings with stillbelieving children.

State worker charged with child porn keeps job
Eric Knuth, an employee in the university’s information technology services department, remains on the job despite a recommendation that he be terminated after investigators with the state Executive Inspector General’s Office found pornography on a...

Leading UIS into the future
“The hiring of our athletic director was absolutely critical, and even though I wasn’t on board yet I was very, very involved with the hire through the months of May and June because I knew it was very critical,” says Koch, who began her term as UIS chancellor on July 1.

Leading UIS into the future
In Jan. 2010, Pate learned that one of her head coaches at Brevard College had sent more than 180 text messages to 15 different prospective student-athletes, all in violation of NCAA Division II rules.

Leading UIS into the future
To that end, Pate is planning to reinvigorate the Prairie Stars’ booster club. According to her resume, Pate increased Brevard’s booster club membership by 20 percent in one year and boosted outside revenues enough to increase the operational budget for athletics by 25 percent.

Leading UIS into the future
Chancellor Susan Koch Megan Waldschmidt is a senior social work major who transferred to UIS as a junior. During her whole first year, she says, she didn’t know who the chancellor was.

Leading UIS into the future
“One of my biggest concerns is that the University of Illinois degree will be inaccessible to students,” she says, noting Illinois’ poor fiscal condition, which has resulted in waning state financial support for higher education and increased costs to students.

This Steel is rusty
Jackman is Charlie Kenton, a down-andout former fighter who was put out to pasture before his time with the coming of robot fighting. Now he manages these steel sluggers, buying them used or rescuing a spare one from the scrap heap to earn a few bucks here and there.

In praise of braise
“Stews are roughly distinguished from braises in that the meats and other ingredients are cut into smaller pieces and there’s much more liquid – usually the ingredients in stews are completely submerged. Also there tend to be more ingredients, all served in the cooking liquid.

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BAND SPOTLIGHT | Eliot Lipp
As the lines between musician and performer blur with DJ and electronic music maker, sounds are created by whatever is available, from a drumbeat to the computer and everything in between, a place where music exists by intent.

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House of Nasty closes
As we pass through the Ides of October and head toward indoor music events, let’s say our goodbyes to a wonderful warm season of terrific outdoor shows. Just taking a moment to revel in the past is a delight, making a pleasant path to focus on the future.

THEATER | Show-within-a-show
Roxy Theatricals was granted the rights to produce the five-time Tony-award winning musical, The Drowsy Chaperone,.

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FILM | Big scream flicks
Route 66 Twin Drive-In at Knights Action Park has a special October in store for families looking for Halloween fun. During the last three weekends in October, families have a choice of two double features nightly with entertaining ghostly and ghouly films such as How to Train Your Dragon, Casper, The Ghost and Mr.

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HOLIDAY | Pumpkins on parade
More than 2,000 jack-o-lanterns fill the night with light and character on two popular, illuminating nights at Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon and Washington Park Botanical Garden Friday, Oct. 14 and Saturday, Oct. 15. District 186 students, artists and the general public carved the crowd of pumpkins for the annual carillon fundraiser.

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PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE UNDER ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME ACT STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF SANGAMON TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that on 26th day of September, 2011 a Certificate of Ownership of business was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of...

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SEV- ENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF ILLINOIS SANGAMON COUNTY, SPRINGFIELD, ILLI- NOIS THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, a Municipal Corporation, Plaintiff, vs. JAMES L. NOREUIL, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendant(s) No.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF SPRINGFIELD, Plaintiff v. DENNIS G. HERRINGTON a/k/a DENNIS HERRINGTON, MONROE PARK CONDO- MINIUM ASSOCIATION, PRAIRIE STATE BANK & TRUST, UNKNOWN

NEWS QUIRKS
Juan Aguirre, 21, broke into Cirilla’s sex shop in Salina, Kan., and made off with six X-rated DVDs — or so he believed. Police who stopped him for questioning said his backpack contained a sledgehammer head attached to a rope that he used to shatter Cirilla’s door glass.

THE ADVICE GODDESS
I feel like a disappointment to my boyfriend of seven months. I’m 28; he’s 35 and Mr. Smart. He is a Brit and was a top student at Cambridge. He says everyone expected him to become prime minister, but he decided to buck their expectations and become a portrait painter.