Wes Smith

Oh. Oh. Oh. Look! Look! Look! On March 10, Tempo wrote about an exhibit at the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria that gives an inside look at...

Tempo first pulled over and gawked at the work of roadside art billboardist Ken Indermark on Oct. 18, 1992. Indermark, operator of Oh My God! Shrineworks in West Rogers Park,...

On Aug. 20, 1991, Tempo wrote about Good's Furniture in Kewanee, Ill., the world's most ambitious small-town store, and Mary Good, the down-to-earth spokesmodel whose ubiquitous TV spots for the...

On April 27, Tempo reported on the unsolved hit-and-run death of Crystal June Melton, a young, mentally disabled woman from Charleston, Ill., who, with her outgoing boyfriend, Kevin James, made...

Although a comedy was playing, the drama was high on Sept. 3, when Tempo took a seat in the grand old cow barn that is home to the Conklin Players...

Backside ogling is back in Oglesby. Naked American Indians depicted in a Depression-era mural were screened from public view when Tempo visited the Oglesby Post Office in LaSalle County on...

On Jan. 30, 1991, Tempo wrote about Ho Young and Ho Sung Pak, Chicago brothers who had just returned to graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after...

On Oct. 21, Tempo told a tale of murder, arson and racketeering in the home of Olive Oyl, Swee' Pea and Popeye, the southern Illinois town of Chester. Last year,...

This farm town of 1,200 people may be willing to forgive its long-sought doctor for an alleged bit of public indecency, but there is one sensational, crude and raunchy act...

On March 1, Tempo offered a portrait of tiny Kampsville, a remote southwestern Illinois river town in which the primary occupation is archeology and the surrounding terrain is considered to...