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The owner of Osaka, a Japanese restaurant on Wabash Avenue, might be relying on Grubhub for awhile after being sentenced to six months of home confinement for tax evasion. The sentence entered against Chu Chuk Cheung on Oct. 1 by U.S. District Court Judge Sue Myerscough also included two years of probation, a $10,000 fine […]

What do the state Supreme Court and Roodhouse have in common? Both lie in areas that have gotten picked on during the war on drugs, according to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and so residents, or past residents, who’ve been arrested, convicted or incarcerated for pot offenses will be eligible for special […]

Compass for Kids, the after-school program and summer learning camp for Springfield homeless and low-income children, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from State Farm insurance. The Springfield nonprofit is one of 40 groups nationwide awarded $25,000 grants from State Farm’s Neighborhood Assist program. This is the third year Compass has won the grant, awarded […]

After long maintaining that deputies should have college experience, Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell says applicants will no longer need college classes to get jobs. He says he’s already done that for would-be correctional officers at the county jail. He acknowledges reluctance at dropping the standard that mandated either college degrees or a combination of […]

On the plus side, the daily paper has begun publishing letters stating the obvious: What in tarnation was the State Journal-Register thinking when it hired Ted Nugent to appear at an outdoor expo set for Sept. 21 at the Bank of Springfield Center? In an advertisement disguized as a news story announcing Nugent’s upcoming appearance, […]

A majority of Springfield city council members this week said nice things about plans to tax recreational marijuana and establish zoning to decide where dispensaries will be allowed. During discussion of pot proposals up for a vote next week, one to establish a tax, the second to establish zoning, aldermen made the case that weed, […]

Springfield Police Chief Kenny Winslow this week briefed the city council on the department’s efforts at reducing gun violence, particularly shootings involving proven or suspected gang members. It was a mixed bag. On the plus side, shootings are down 24% since 2017, when a rash of shootings generated fear and attention. On the other hand, […]

We can’t imagine, sometimes, what goes on in the minds of the Masters Of The Fourth Estate, aka the Illinois Press Association. A few years ago, they were rigging journalism contests, which led to the departure of president and chief executive officer Dennis DeRossett, who walked away with his full $185,000 salary in 2017, according […]

The best thing to do about wrongful convictions is avoid them. Over and over, the Illinois Innocence Project has learned that bad convictions result from bad police work, whether from jumping to conclusions about a suspect, sloppy gathering of evidence or eliciting a false confession. So the IIP has partnered with the Police Training Institute […]

It’s not too early to start thinking about Christmas, when chestnuts roast and sleigh bells jingle and The Nutcracker becomes a mainstay throughout the land. But there can be no Nutcracker without dancers, and so the Springfield Ballet Company is looking for a few good kids to perform in its annual production of the Christmas […]

With legal cannabis just around the corner, Springfield can expect at least one more pot shop within city limits in addition to two local medical marijuana dispensaries already in operation, one downtown and the other in Grandview. Chris Stone, CEO of HCI Alternatives that sells medical pot on Adams Street, confirms that his company has […]

Compass for Kids needs your help by voting for the organization to receive a $25,000 grant from State Farm. Starting Tuesday, Aug. 14, U.S. residents who are 18 and older with a valid email address could vote for their favorite cause. Compass has until Aug. 23 to rally votes and anyone voting is allowed up […]