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The effort to impeach and convict Donald Trump continues. “We do have other responsibilities in the Senate. Providing President Biden with his team, particularly his national security team, is our highest priority,” U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois told reporters during a Jan. 22 news conference. “The idea of inciting an insurrection against the government […]

Feeling cramped by COVID restrictions mandated by Gov. JB Pritzker? Move to Oklahoma, which is the least-restrictive state when it comes to measures – think mask mandates, temperature screenings before entering buildings, restrictions on public gatherings, whether bars and restaurants are open and between what hours – taken to keep people alive and healthy, according […]

As of early Wednesday, it appeared state Rep. Chris Welch had the most support to be the next House Speaker. If he wins enough votes from fellow reps, he will be the state’s first Black person to fill the post. It’s a title Michael Madigan has held longer than any other in U.S. history. The […]

With a lease expiring in June, the state comptroller’s office has won legislative approval for a new deal that could result in relocation within the capital city. One option is to buy the building at 323 West Adams Street where comptroller employees have worked for 40 years. Under the expiring lease, the state is paying […]

Whilst staff at veterans’ homes, nursing homes, hospitals and sundry health care facilities balk at getting vaccinated – let-me-think-about-it rates for doctors, nurses and other frontline health care workers are as high as 40 percent nationwide – the state of Illinois has decided that while doses remain scarce, prisoners and the homeless who reside in […]

It’s early, yes, nearly two years out from Election Day. Only a fool would declare intentions at this point – give the incumbent a chance to drown or swim. But with Gov. JB Pritzker facing a $4 billion budget hole and Michael Madigan stuck to his shoe and signature initiatives flaming out – see the […]

A short film starring Springfield’s Dr. Wesley Robinson McNeese won a regional Emmy award. In the video, McNeese reads a piece of original poetry titled “Face to Face” from a site of ruins from the 1908 Race Riot. The massacre consisted of white mobs attacking innocent Black people by burning their businesses and homes and […]

Don’t throw your burned out Christmas lights in the garbage – recycle them. BLH Computers is partnering with local communities to collect Christsmas lights that will be recycled. Collection boxes are located at the Leland Grove police department, 2000 Chatham Road; City of Springfield Municipal Center West, City of Springfield Lincoln Public Library; Rochester Community […]

With coronavirus crescendoing and epidemiologists warning that big Thanksgiving dinners will lead to small Christmas funerals, authorities say they have been doing everything possible to corral the pandemic. In Springfield, the city boasts about taking the toughest measures in the state, authorizing police to write $50 citations to maskless people found inside any building open […]

The Illinois Innocence Project, based at University of Illinois Springfield, is celebrating that four of its clients who began 2020 in prison will be home for Thanksgiving. Collectively, they spent 111 years wrongfully incarcerated. The four clients include a woman who was released in response to a plea for an expedited clemency petition ruling from […]

While scores of firefighters have been quarantined after being exposed to coronavirus, Gene Mitchell, speaking on behalf of union employees, told the Springfield City Council this week that the city isn’t doing enough to keep germs out of city hall. “The administration has considered Plexiglass to be tantamount to a vaccine,” Mitchell told the council […]