The Sangamon County Board in 2024 spent more than $362,000 on security upgrades for the county's Juvenile Detention Center, ...

After juvenile life sentences were banned, a bill to make youth sentencing reforms retroactive stalled last session ...

The Springfield diocese and the Pregnancy Care Center in Rockford jointly filed a federal lawsuit in the northern district of ...

Emails are sent, with no response. Phone calls aren't returned. Knocking on the door doesn't do any good because no one seems ...

Exploring the history of American lynching from Chicago to New Orleans, the Citizens Club of Springfield recently presented ...

But over his 40 years as a corn and soybean farmer in Champaign County, Stierwalt said soil erosion, which can cause fertilizer and manure runoff to end up in nearby rivers and streams, has become an ...

Treadwell was injured in the early 2000s, when Oxycontin – the drug that kicked off the opioid epidemic – was being over-prescribed. Treadwell had never heard of the drug until he was one of the many ...

Yeppers, it is officially April of 2025 and we're right in the thick of the first weekend with plenty of live music to muster ...

Health care advocates in Springfield are working to pass legislation to secure low-income Illinoisans access to medications ...

Sunshine Clemons exemplifies all these qualities and then some. Throughout Sunshine's career, she has exemplified selfless ...

Various dates through June 6, 1:30 p.m. This short play tells the story of Robert Smalls. Smalls, enslaved from birth, commandeered a Confederate ship in Charleston, South Carolina, and used it to ...

Two centuries after his birth, Springfield's best-known resident remains a revered icon, a leader who bore the weight of destiny to his untimely demise. Born in dire poverty and self-educated, Abraham ...