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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...