Park board race draws field of newcomers

Illinois Muslims gather at Capitol for ‘action’

Springfield mosque takes small steps toward ‘green Ramadan’

Teenage Muslims knelt for afternoon prayer on the floor of the Statehouse after a rally on Muslim Action Day, March 9. Nearly 1,200 Muslim faithful converged on the state capital to push for education

Aldermanic candidates quizzed for answers to community problems

Doris Turner says that 65 percent of the people within the Third Ward do not have sidewalks, something she hopes to change if elected to the alderman post in the April 5 election. Infrastructure and p

Paper and perks, top issues for city clerk candidates

Democrat Frank Kunz, 3rd Ward alderman and candidate for mayor of Springfield, says “everything just moves quicker” at the city clerk’s office since Cecilia Tumulty took the helm in

When a fifth-grader goes to jail

Bill would increase detention age from 10 to 13 and promote alternatives for incarcerated kids

Fifth-graders are better off learning fractions than serving hard time. With that in mind, Rep. Annazette Collins wants to know why there are fifth-graders in Illinois youth detention centers. Collins

Schock: Obama’s budget ‘unsustainable’

This may be the year for ‘concealed-carry’

National Rifle Association lobbies for the right to carry a concealed firearm

Bipartisan and law enforcement support may be the ticket for successful concealed-carry legislation in Illinois, an issue that been passed back and forth in the state since the 1990s. Concealed-carry

Civil rights office asks UIS to evaluate Title IX compliance

Water under the bridge

County reverses ruling that bridge is “habitable”

A bridge, by any other name, is still a bridge. Nowhere does a definition of the word offer up the structure as a house or a liveable shelter. But after two years of bickering with bureaucracy, New Be

Road hazard

Springfield woman with 37 traffic offenses finally has her driver’s license revoked