Jennifer Gill’s children were in middle school when she accepted the job to be the District 186 superintendent in 2014. Now, her kids are in college, and Springfield schools have changed over the decade of her leadership. Gill has worked as a teacher, principal and administrator in Springfield schools since 1994. Her superintendent contract ends after […]
Addison Wright
Addison Wright is a UIS grad student in the Public Affairs Reporting program. Wright graduated from UNC Asheville last spring with a double major in mass communications and political science. She covered local politics in Nashville, Tennessee, and food insecurity and higher education in North Carolina.
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Defenders of the Innocent celebrate exonerations
Kristine Bunch was 22 when her three-year old son died in an electrical fire. She was charged with his murder and served 17 years of her 60-year sentence in prison. The Illinois Innocence Project (IIP) brought her home in 2012. Now, Bunch educates police officers on wrongful conviction and received the 2024 Defender of the […]
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Senior housing turmoil continues
Low-income residents at Springfield apartment complexes Meadow View Place and Meadow View Landing said they feel targeted after the properties were bought last October by a Denver-based company. Senior residents continue to feel threatened, as previously reported by Illinois Times. Related “Some people are older, and they’re ill, and they don’t have any family members […]
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Schools strictly implementing new phone policy
The new school phone policy for Springfield District 186 may already be tightening, two weeks into the Aug. 26 start of school. The policy hasn’t changed, but school personnel are becoming more strict about how it’s being implemented. “We’re finding that we had to go stricter quicker because there’s all types of shades of this […]
