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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A Springfield City Council member questioned why the city would consider giving away the Y block without more than a $4 million commitment from state officials to construct a permanent outdoor ...

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

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

The Springfield Area Arts Council is facilitating the return of Shakespeare in the Park on Friday, July 24, from 6-8 p.m. at ...

About a week after the state budget passed both chambers in the dark of night, Attorney General Kwame Raoul spoke to the City Club of Chicago to complain that his budget was cut by $10 million. “For ...

The Sangamon County Board had one of its rare feel-good moments as members unanimously approved and swore in a new board member — complete with a light-hearted nod to cutting through “tangled ...