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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A new Illinois law prohibits discrimination against individuals based on their position on abortion, but Catholic Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield is challenging its constitutionality. "States ...

Cleodious "J.R." Schoffner Jr. sits in a visitor's room at Lawrence Correctional Center, a small, cinderblock box with a guard posted outside the heavy metal door. His lanky, 6-foot frame is swallowed ...

Intellectual and developmental disability service organizations are bracing for potential cuts to Medicaid and Medicare from the federal government under congressional Republicans and President Donald ...

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Imagine being owed $1 million and going years without collecting. Emails are sent, with no response. Phone calls aren't returned. Knocking on the door doesn't do any good because no one seems to ever ...