PIKE COUNTY COURTHOUSE: CLEAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT!
My understanding is that it is more difficult to keep an old building clean and well maintained. Well, the Pike County Courthouse is very old but the folks there keep it spotlessly clean. There are a lot of well maintained buildings in the UMRB but none better than the Pike County Courthouse. So, when candidates talk about "cleaning up" local government, it's already been done in Pike County. It's a credit to the Sheriff and County Board.
Good Job, Folks.
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posted by UMRBlog @ 13:25
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10 Comments:
Hancock Co has a very nice, old courthouse. Champaign-Urb (new)is a Taj-Mahal! Morgan County is a dump, but they are working on it.
Sangamon, very nice (in Borat's voice) but always crowded. Adams could use a sprucing up, but look at all the complaints over just the vestibule! LOL
McClean Co has a 70's vibe to it.
Whiteside stinks.
Won't tell ya the one I've been to in Cook, may give me away, but the parking is cheap (very mucuch so, for Chi).
Knox could use a makeover.
Logan, love the prisoners on the cleaning crew!
Cass county is another story entirely! Yikes!
That ends my tour, any other thoughts, anyone! Reviews of court houses not mentioned?
Morgan is so vertical and has so many nooks, it's gotta be hard to keep clean. There's still probably some of Stephen A. Douglas' (former Morgan County State's Attorney) earwax around there.
Hancock is gorgeous but not as clean as Pike.
Sangamon is very well kept. For some reason a lot of the modern courthouses are not well cleaned. I don't get it. Stop in and look at LaSalle sometime. Yuck!
Maybe Cass is neither modern nor spotless but the people there are there to serve. I always like going there. Maybe I just feel close to Abe.
Thanks for the tour.
Carrollton's courthouse has drab hallways but the courtroom is awesome. Pike's gallery seating is not good. Hancock is much better unless you are in the small courtroom, which is cramped but offers a great view. Brown County has character too, always entertaining when Judge Slocum presides.
Always love sitting in the Adams County 2C during 10 a.m. cattle call, where the sound system is non existent. It's hard to hear sometimes in Judge Mays' courtroom (not his fault), usually can hear OK in the others.
One the Missouri side, Hannibal is fair, Ralls did a great job with renovation, and Lewis County (Monticello) reminds me of a bingo parlor, with lousy acoustics. Clark County is a piece of living history. Bowling Green's is cramped and shabby.
I love the federal courthouse in St. Louis, with it's majestic view of the Arch and the new Busch Stadium.
The best courthouse in Missouri is in Columbia, modern, lots of room, good sound systems. One of the worst I've been in is in Mexico. Drab, crowded, and I sat through three hours where a single judge presided over loan defaults, DUI's, divorces and a murder sentencing, all in one session.
Brown County has undergone a major renovation, and it is very pretty. Don't forget Schuyler. The color scheme and woodwork are beautiful.
As for Pike, love the Christmas decorations and the candles in the windows!
My vote years ago would have been for Hancock. Lately, however, it seems to have slipped a little. I still think it is better than Pike. I do miss the feet painted on the floor at the urinal in the basement.
Better, I don't know. Schuyler'd have to be in that mix. But Pike's the cleanest, day-in-day-out courthouse going.
ABC
As stated earlier, the new one in Champaign looks like one of Saddam's(hang em high) palaces. Wonder where they got the money, although U of I can't hurt the tax base! Check it out sometime.
8:36
Rodney, can that sound system be fixed? My complaint is, it is a public court room, and a lot of times I need to know what's going on, and can't hear! And you can't sit too close to the front, or Bubba from ACSD will send you back!
Anon 0836,
A lot of money and ingenuity has been thrown at that problem over the years. I don't understand all the details but there are architectural problems and ambient noise issues. Fix one, make the other worse. Name your poison.
Probably an expert Funion could fix it.
Expert Funion is a contradiction ....
ABC is right, much of the problem is in the design. Sound systems are expensive and there's no way they'll drop dimes to fix it right now. Long and narrow courtrooms are not good for sound, and if the judge doesn't speak clearly, it's really frustrating. More than once I've written a story with the phrase: "Much of her testimony couldn't be heard in the courtroom." The judges are aware of it and they do the best they can. Well, most of them, anyway. As for "Bubba from the ACSD," yes, the bailiffs can seem brusque, but almost all of them are hard-working and try to be understanding. They are just enforcing the rules. I wouldn't want their job, that's for sure.
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