These past few weeks our nation has observed and celebrated its 250th anniversary! Numerous expressions of celebration have ...

Kenton Oliver is sworn in as the new police chief during a March 24 Leland Grove City Council meeting. Credit: Dilpreet Raju The Leland Grove City Council unanimously approved hiring Kenton Oliver as ...

The Illinois Republican Party filed its quarterly campaign finance report on the July 15 deadline. The party reported having ...

Theatre in the Park at New Salem announced a change to its summer lineup. Due to the production of Hands on a Hard Body being ...

Advocates for increasing the compensation for people wrongfully convicted celebrated a major victory on July 14, the day Gov.

The Springfield Area Arts Council is facilitating the return of Shakespeare in the Park on Friday, July 24, from 6-8 p.m. at Enos Park, 1000 N. Seventh St., in Springfield. Now in its third year, ...

Democrat candidate Marc Bell, who dropped out of the Sangamon County sheriff’s race prior to the March primary and rejoined ...

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Julie Rea has told this story hundreds of times. But no matter how many times she tells it, the story never makes sense.

A Sangamon County jury awarded $38.4 million to Stacey Brown, a former HSHS St. John’s Hospital employee who was injured when a defective operating room boom collapsed on her. Credit: PHOTO BY ...