Dilpreet Raju

In the waning hours of legislative session, the Illinois General Assembly got close, but failed to pass a bill that would create multiple government boards to promote redevelopment of downtown Springfield. Sangamon County Board Chair Andy Van Meter said he expects elected officials to keep working on the proposal. The Senate approved an amended House […]

A Sangamon County jury awarded $38.4 million to a former HSHS St. John’s Hospital employee who was injured when a defective operating room boom collapsed on her, finding the medical equipment manufacturer to be liable. The several-hundred-pound boom, used for docking medical equipment on a swivel arm, injured Stacey Brown to the point of requiring […]

A proposal to amend Sangamon County’s data center ordinance remained tabled following the county’s May 21 Zoning and Land Use Committee meeting. The two-page ordinance, Chapter 17.39 of Sangamon County Code, was quietly introduced last spring and passed the County Board without issue in July. Since then, board members and proponents of the area’s first […]

Logan County officials approved a one-year moratorium on data center projects with a 6-4 vote May 19. That vote occurred less than a month after the Champaign County Board voted to enact its own yearlong moratorium with an 11-3 vote. The project proposed by Hut 8, a publicly traded company from Florida, would have been […]

Four Sangamon and Logan County marijuana businesses received a total of nearly $2 million in direct forgivable loans last month from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as part of the Cannabis Social Equity Loan Program. Two craft grow businesses received $750,000 each in forgivable loans – Lincoln Labs and Rt. 66 Rec. […]

Sangamon County officials revealed an artificial intelligence-driven logo concept to commemorate America’s 250 years of independence and 100 years of Route 66 at the May 12 county board meeting. The logo, which District 17 board member Annette Fulgenzi said has some things to clean up, appears to depict Sangamon County with Christian County’s borders appended […]

More than six months after the Wyndham Springfield City Centre Hotel had its first-floor windows boarded, city workers began painting those coverings to keep the property compliant with a city ordinance. David Fuchs, director of Public Works, told Illinois Times the city had asked the Wyndham owner to paint the coverings, as required by the […]

The Sangamon County Board appointed seven members to the county’s newly formed Mental Health Board during a May 12 board meeting. Members will decide which programs the county’s upcoming limited 0.5% sales tax levy will fund. The levy goes into effect July 1 but funding is not expected to be disbursed until October, giving the […]

Dowson Family Farms, which has four parcels of land under contract to CyrusOne for construction of a $500 million data center project in Talkington Township, contacted area school officials to tout “a once-in-a-lifetime tax revenue opportunity.” Darrel Thoma, chief financial officer of Dowson Family Farms, sent a follow-up email April 3 to Becca Lamon, superintendent […]