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Adrian Dater

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Adrian Dater

    Send in the clowns - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)

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    Eleven months of the year, Robert Quance lives a 9-to-5 life working behind the camera as a news assignment editor for WICS NewsChannel 20 in Springfield. Every October, though, Quance takes all his unused sick and personal time, dons grease paint, puts on a bulbous red nose and runs away to join the circus. Quance, 32, a former theater kid who grew up mostly in Pawnee, isn’t offended when you call him a clown. While he does wear some other hats, literally and figuratively, with Horror Circus, I

  2. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Adrian Dater

    Becoming a billet - Illinois Times, the capital city's weekly source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)

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    Ask a veteran hockey player about their parents, and they’ll often answer: Which ones? For players that had enough talent to play for a junior hockey team, such as the Springfield Jr. Blues of the North American Hockey League, there were their regular parents and their billet parents. New Jr. Blues defenseman Brady Anundsen, 17, is always in touch with his birth parents back in Green Bay, Wisconsin. But for the next seven months, at least, Anundsen now is under the legal guardianship of his bill

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Adrian Dater

    Big Ten blood drive competition - Illinois Times, the capital city's weekly source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)

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    If you have Big Ten school ties, you can donate blood while also helping your favorite institution. The Abbott Big Ten Blood Drive competition runs through Dec. 5, the end of its regular football season. For Illini fans, this is the opportunity to receive an orange Illinois T-shirt in exchange for their donation. Impact Life has donation centers in Springfield, Decatur, Urbana, Danville and Mattoon. Make a blood donation before Dec. 4 at a center or any mobile blood drive. Take a selfie with the

  4. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Adrian Dater

    Career Connections - Illinois Times, the capital city's weekly source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)

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    The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce is looking for area professionals to join its new Career Connections program to work with high school students exploring their future opportunities. Career Connections is a database hosted on the Chamber’s website where area students and counselors can find a local professional to interview about their career and educational path. Students will be able to peruse a directory of professionals and select someone with whom they share commonalities or inter

  5. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Adrian Dater

    Letters to the editor - Illinois Times, the capital city's weekly source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)

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    As was mentioned, no one’s history is pretty (“Our history is not pretty,” Aug. 15). I am proud that Springfield is making an effort to take a hard look at this horrible moment. In some ways, it is woven into my family history. My grandparents helped hide some of the people who were threatened by the mob. My grandfather, who was a newspaper editor, stood as a witness for the prosecution because he saw the lynch mob go past, though at the time did not know what they were about to do. The presiden

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