''Illinois Times'' is a weekly free newspaper (distributed every Thursday) based in

Springfield, Illinois Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, the second largest o ...

. Founded in 1975, the newspaper was acquired in 1977 by Fletcher Farrar Sr., a

Mount Vernon Mount Vernon is an American landmark and former plantation of Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States George Washington and his wife, Martha. The estate is on ...

businessman who employed his son, Fletcher, Jr. (Bud), as editor. The senior Farrar died in 1995; his son sold the paper two years later. Farrar Jr. reacquired control in 2002 and returned as editor in 2008. The newspaper distributes about 28,000 copies at more than 400 locations in the Springfield, Illinois area.

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* Springfield, Illinois Newspapers published in Illinois Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States Newspapers established in 1975 Companies based in Sangamon County, Illinois 1975 establishments in Illinois {{Illinois-newspaper-stub