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Job-training program to improve lives and blight

By Rachel Otwell

Jul 29, 2021

In 2020, Black people made up 13.4% of the overall U.S. population, but only accounted for 8% of those considered construction laborers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Only 3% of construction managers were Black, according to the same data...

Calvin Pitts, center in orange, stands with recent graduates of his construction training program during a ceremony at the NAACP headquarters in Springfield.

Springfield's DAR chapter celebrates 126th anniversary

By Cinda Ackerman Klickna
Jul 29, 2021
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered

By Karen Ackerman Witter
Jul 29, 2021
City surveys residents to determine internet needs

By Carey Smith
Jul 29, 2021
Will state workers come back to offices?

By David Blanchette
Jul 29, 2021
Illinois adopts CDC guidance that all students and teachers mask up

By Rachel Otwell
Jul 28, 2021
New Salem gets an infusion

By William Furry
Jul 22, 2021
State "encourages" colleges to require students to get vaccine

By Jerry Nowicki, Capitol News Illinois
Jul 22, 2021
Festival of Trees moving downtown

By Karen Witter
Jul 22, 2021
Sky's the limit

By Rachel Otwell
Jul 22, 2021
Help for home care

By Rachel Otwell
Jul 15, 2021
East-side teen empowerment zone

By Rachel Otwell
Jul 15, 2021
Homeless in the heat

By Kenneth Lowe
Jul 8, 2021
American as apple pie

By Rachel Otwell
Jul 8, 2021
Reducing harm, saving lives

By Madison Angell
Jul 8, 2021
NPR Illinois to lose university funding

By David Blanchette
Jul 1, 2021
Saving blue ash trees

By Karen Ackerman Witter
Jul 1, 2021
Family and feelings behind the new park name

By Rachel Otwell
Jul 1, 2021
Be great on the grill

By Lana Shovlin
Jul 1, 2021
Session ends with major legislation, but no energy bill

By Peter Hancock, Capitol News Illinois
Jun 24, 2021
Bruce Rushton no longer employed at Illinois Times

By Michelle Ownbey
Jun 24, 2021