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  • Town and Country Shopping Center sells to Miami developer
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    May 25, 5:58PM
    Town and Country Shopping Center sells to Miami developer
    Company plans indoor storage, improvements to façade and parking lot
    By Dean Olsen
    An investment firm in Miami that promotes itself as focusing on “distressed residential and commercial projects” was the winning bidder to acquire Springfield’s Town & Country Shopping Center. Larkspur Properties is scheduled to close on... Read More 
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Summerguide 2022

By Michelle Ownbey

May 26, 2022

The annual fairs, festivals and events that are a staple of summer have returned this year, and performers will once again take the stage at the Springfield Muni and Theatre in the Park after a two-year hiatus. Springfield’s baseball team has a new name and new owners who plan to offer the community a lot more than baseball...

Summerguide 2022

News & Opinion

  • $48 million in new construction for Springfield Clinic

    New pediatric center, lab and main campus addition in the works

    By Dean Olsen

    May 26, 2022
    Springfield Clinic plans to demolish the former Family Service Center building at Eighth and Vine streets and construct a 25,000-square-foot medical laboratory.
  • Illinois hotels get $75 million in federal assistance

    Industry still struggling to recover

    By Dean Olsen

    May 26, 2022
    Supporters of a $250 million allocation of federal funds to help Illinois hotels recover from the COVID-19 pandemic explain legislation to carry out the proposal at a March 8 Capitol news conference. They included, from left, state Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago; Sen. Sara Feigenholtz, D-Chicago; Michael Jacobson, CEO of the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association; Darin Dame, general manager of Springhill Suites by Marriott in Springfield; and Anwar Martin, general manager of DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Bloomington.
  • Black Lives Matter Springfield awards scholarships

    Annual solidarity car procession through downtown is May 29

    By Karen Ackerman Witter

    May 26, 2022
    Tori Taylor, Rochester High School
  • Illinois' population has grown, not declined

    US Census Bureau admits population count was inaccurate

    By Rich Miller

    May 26, 2022
    Illinois' population has grown, not declined
  • Springfield runner wins 100-mile race

    By Karen Ackerman Witter

    May 26, 2022
    After a century, Joe Miller with his wife, Valerie
  • Remembering the butterflies

    By Scott Reeder

    May 26, 2022
    Remembering the butterflies
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  • Cheese on the grill

    For grilled cheese with a difference, try halloumi

    By Peter Glatz

    May 26, 2022
    Grilled Halloumi Cheese
  • Grilling on a budget

    By Ashley Meyer

    May 19, 2022
    Lamb kebab
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  • Memorial Day weekend music

    By Tom Irwin

    May 26, 2022
    Cut Flowers, an acoustic duo of Arlin Peebles and Erin Darnell, perform Thursday at Dumb Records for their debut EP/CD release.
  • Mid-May music mayhem

    By Tom Irwin

    May 19, 2022
    This week The Deep Hollow plays the Curve Inn on Thursday at 6 p.m. and downtown at PrideFest on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
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Arts & Culture

  • Jay poem #1

    By Jacqueline Jackson

    May 26, 2022
  • These honored dead

    A Memorial Day tribute to the unknown soldiers of the Civil War

    By Mark Flotow

    May 26, 2022
    Mark Flotow of Springfield is author of In Their Letters, In Their Words: Illinois Civil War Soldiers Write Home. Southern Illinois University Press, 2019.
  • The migration of Black Americans

    By Stacie Lewis

    May 26, 2022
    The migration of Black Americans
  • Maverick barely passes muster, Men is a shallow take, Taste of Whale questions tradition

    By Chuck Koplinski

    May 26, 2022
    Maverick barely passes muster, Men is a shallow take, Taste of Whale questions tradition
  • Boring Poem #2

    By Jacqueline Jackson

    May 19, 2022
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  • Best of Springfield® Reader's Poll 2021

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    Oct 28, 2021
    Best of Springfield® Reader's Poll 2021
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$48 million in new construction for Springfield Clinic

By Dean Olsen

May 26, 2022
Springfield Clinic plans to demolish the former Family Service Center building at Eighth and Vine streets and construct a 25,000-square-foot medical laboratory.

Memorial Day weekend music

By Tom Irwin

May 26, 2022
Cut Flowers, an acoustic duo of Arlin Peebles and Erin Darnell, perform Thursday at Dumb Records for their debut EP/CD release.

Illinois hotels get $75 million in federal assistance

By Dean Olsen

May 26, 2022
Supporters of a $250 million allocation of federal funds to help Illinois hotels recover from the COVID-19 pandemic explain legislation to carry out the proposal at a March 8 Capitol news conference. They included, from left, state Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago; Sen. Sara Feigenholtz, D-Chicago; Michael Jacobson, CEO of the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association; Darin Dame, general manager of Springhill Suites by Marriott in Springfield; and Anwar Martin, general manager of DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Bloomington.

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