While I never covered city hall as such, I wrote about Springfield politics often; in fact one of my very first published pieces was on that topic. Springfield became widely known as a political town when it was named Illinois capital in 1835, but in fact it was a political town before then. In fact, Springfield won the capital because its civic stalwarts—men ambitious for themselves and thus for their town—were adept at the political arts as then practiced.

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In other Downstate cities, politics is the means  by which good governments are achieved; in Springfield, government is the means by which good political organizations are achieved. The capture of city hall by successive professional pols of both parties occasionally offended respectable local opinion, but never so much that a majority of citizens demanded a change. 

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The articles listed below are only a selection. The rest are about issues that no longer are of consequence and people whose names are not longer familiar.

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