As of Tuesday, the new Illinois Poet Laureate is named Mark Turcotte and this is a portion of one of his poems, the beginning stanza of “Flies Buzzing.” As a child I danced to the heartful, savage ...

May 6, 1985 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.