Illinois Times | R.L. Nave

Jena and Peoria Aren't All That Differentnew

Incidents in Illinois, much like the more high-profile case in Louisiana, show the criminal justice system still isn't colorblind, a civil rights leader says.

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 09-20-2007 | Race & Class

Tags: race relations, jena 6, Jena

Chasing ACESnew

Illinois incorporates first-ever energy standards into rate relief, but are they garbage?

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 09-20-2007 | Environment

Tags: environment

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul?new

Even staunch allies of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich are critical of his latest healthcare initiative.

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 08-30-2007 | Science

Tags: Health & Science

Illinois Scientsts Get the Poop on Pig Powernew

Using a technique he developed known as thermochemical conversion, Yuanhui Zhang thought he could turn something that smells awful into products that have no smell -- he was thinking about something like odorless fertilizer, but he may have stumbled on something much more valuable.

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 08-23-2007 | Environment

Tags: energy, environment

State Farm Clarifies its iPhone Policynew

Although the company allows insurance on iPhones to be sold, local underwriters, who are divided into zones, have discretion to give an ultimate yea or nay.

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 08-16-2007 | Tech

Tags: computers & technology

Durbin Presses for Investigation into Brad Will's Murdernew

The senator from Illinois has written to the State Department, asking that they formally investigate last year's killing of the independent journalist in Mexico.

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 08-16-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Getting the Skinny on Farm Subsidiesnew

Nonprofit website provides tools to help track the cash.

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 08-02-2007 | Politics

Residents Fight a Proposed Corn Mill in Illinoisnew

The tortilla flap is emblematic of a growing rural brand of not-in-our-back-yard-ism in which residents of new bedroom communities in the sticks find themselves confronting major agribusiness projects.

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 07-20-2007 | Business & Labor

Tags: business & labor

iNsurable: State Farm Has iPhone's Numbernew

Big insurers, at first, refused to cover the nifty but expensive Apple iPhone.

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 07-12-2007 | Tech

Tags: computers & technology

Environmentalists Skeptical of 'Clean' Coalnew

Although the debate over coal-burning power plants often begins at the smokestack, the Sierra Club finds that coal's path of destruction really begins in the mine and continues to wreak havoc until waste finds its way to a landfill, abandoned mine, or human lung.

Illinois Times | R.L. Nave | 07-09-2007 | Environment

Tags: environment