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Down the gardened path - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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Imagine pedaling happily along a paved path where murals and stand-alone art works distract you from the shabbiness or outright ugliness of Springfield’s backsides, passing frolicking children and couples strolling hand in hand thinking how lucky they are to be living in a city that… well, that part of the daydream is not quite clear yet. It took more than 100 years and the expenditure of many millions of dollars, but Springfield next year will have rerouted freight trains from the Third Street
Doing the job - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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We live in dread of the robot brains, haunted as we are by our exchanges with chatbots that are smarter than any actual person we’ve ever known. More perfect AI is likely to make obsolete jobs by the millions. (On the upside, that will include lots of dreary jobs that talented and ambitious people don’t want to do; I for one look forward to a day when AI can do the job of county board members.) And if AI systems can replace teachers and doctors they can certainly replace low to mid-level white-c
Unamended consequences - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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With luck, the $350 million renovation of the Illinois State Capitol north wing will open by the time the snow flies and Springfield will get a glimpse of the new main entrance to the Statehouse. Visitor screening, conference rooms and parking are now bunkered beneath the lawn on the Monroe Street side. Readers old enough to recall when the people’s government did not fear the people will struggle to see these changes as improvements. I find it cheerier to think of the new works as public art, a
Looking to the skies - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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No one who’s seen it is likely to forget it. I refer to the ending to Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind when the aliens’ mothership dropped from the sky to land on an isolated Wyoming butte. Imagine something that unexpected, that wondrous, landing in Sangamon County. Lots of people thought that wondrous did happen, when CyrusOne, a big data center developer, announced that it wanted to build a hyperscale facility in southwest Sangamon County. Some locals were terrified, othe
Natural play space - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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Its downtown might lack a public but Springfield has built lots of public spaces, just in case. Even though few of these spaces are much used, the city looks set to get another one. The state’s Department of Natural Resources is in talks with the city of Springfield to convert the city’s long-vacant Y block into a park-ish outdoor performance venue. The project is the fruit of efforts by our two most recent First Couples to see the lot across the street from the Governor’s Mansion safe from deve
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