A revamped “transparency” section on the Springfield Police Department website shows this year’s stunningly low rate of shootings as well as familiar clusters of violent crime and traffic stops on the ...

Springfield resident David Butt has donated enough blood to completely fill 33 human beings. “After I retired, I made it my personal goal to be a maximum blood donor to the extent that my health would ...

No one who’s seen it is likely to forget it. I refer to the ending to Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind ...

As we gear up for the first full weekend of August, the live music scene is in full throttle mode. With the pedal to the metal, the race is on to get to the Illinois State Fair, but first, let’s take ...

Most Illinois retailers will be required to accept cash payments beginning in 2028 under a bill Gov. JB Pritzker signed on ...

The 30-story Wyndham Springfield City Centre, closed since March 2025 by water damage that local police and the FBI were ...

United Way has never been simply an organization I volunteer with; it has been a part of my life. First through my Dad, then ...

A Chatham solar project approved by the Sangamon County Board in late 2021, on the same evening the Board approved the 4,100-acre Double Black Diamond Solar farm, is finally expected to begin ...

Earlier this summer, I stood on the side of a hill in Guatemala watching a University of Illinois Springfield student mix ...

The Springfield Area Arts Council, in partnership with the city of Springfield, is accepting nominations for the 23rd Mayor’s ...

The recent observance of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence last month brought back to ...

The American Pickers are returning to Illinois and Iowa and plan to film episodes of The History Channel hit television ...