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Doing more for the homeless
Nonprofits, police department, expand services to address a growing need
By Dean Olsen
Tags: News, homeless, springfield IL, heartland housed, unhoused, Video
Rail improvement project delayed
Failed to receive final portion of funding from federal government
Tags: News, Video
Haley suspended by NAACP
Calling immigrants 'savages' and rapists creates uproar
Elimination of cash bail seems to be working
Three months in, jail population is down but crime rates haven't spiked
Federal trial for Sam McCann postponed again
Decides to represent himself, pleads not guilty to charges of illegal campaign spending
Groundbreaking for Scheels Sports Park
Construction to start for a $67 million sports complex opening in 2025
Growing the east side of Springfield
Motherland Gardens aims to connect residents with fresh, healthy food
CO2 pipeline stalled in Sangamon County
County Board enacts additional moratorium, opposes approval
Housing first
A coordinated approach to end homelessness
Firestorm of fear
Transgender controversy at Springfield YMCA goes national amid conflicting stories
Bringing health care to community gardens
SIU launches Operation Taproot to connect residents to medical and social services
Court rules against man filing serial lawsuits
A pause on the pipeline
Sangamon County Board committee recommends continuing moratorium on construction of CO pipeline
Tuitions costs climb as Illinois disinvests in public colleges
State funding has fallen by half over the past 20 years, contributing to strikes at universities
By Andrew Adams, Capitol News Illinois
Woman with disabilities criticizes group home for bad care
Being left to sit in dirty diapers, not bathed, has resulted in multiple hospitalizations for infections
Emergency workers face murder charges
Springfield man, 35, suffocated after being tightly strapped into stretcher face-down
Deputy in trouble again
Deputy Travis Koester, Sangamon County sued
By Bruce Rushton
County backs new $5 million homeless shelter
Location on South Dirksen would require transporting users from downtown
Driving while Black
Black drivers in Springfield five times more likely to be stopped by police
By Scott Reeder
Changes coming to Lincoln Library
New director Summer Beck-Griffith has an ambitious five-year plan
Green growth
More businesses seek to open in Sangamon County as cannabis sales climb
CO2 pipeline project proceeding
Environmental groups and some landowners trying to block it, citing safety concerns
A new look for Ninth Street
Transportation hub, expansion to county complex start to take shape
"Paper terrorism" comes to Springfield
Civil lawsuit filed against man acting as a sovereign citizen
Angst over abortion
Opponents and advocates make plans after leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft
Nightrain - The Guns & Roses Tribute Experience
@ Danenberger Family Vineyards
Sat., March 30, 8 p.m.
Photographing history
Home alone
By George Pawlaczyk
My curriculum not the reason kids can’t read
By Lucy Calkins
John Mellencamp more than rocks
By Tom Irwin