Then the proposed map from Illinois Democrats should be appalling.” ... Springfield may have been a good choice for a state capital in 1839 when Chicago had a population of 4,200 people.

The State of Illinois Center, shown in 1983, was a 17-story, 1.2 million-square-foot building bound by Lake, LaSalle, Randolph and Clark streets and the pet project of Gov. Jim Thompson. It opened ...