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Bistro Verde, Lincoln Land Community College’s student-run café, will be open during the spring 2018 semester on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. beginning Tuesday, Feb. 6. The café’s dining room is staffed by students from the dining room operations class, and food is prepared by students in the food production IV […]

Families with current eighth-grade students are encouraged to attend high school preview night events being held at 6 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 11, at Lanphier, Southeast and Springfield high schools. Visitors will learn about courses, tour the applicable school and meet teachers and administrators. The event is open to any families with incoming freshmen, including those […]

Jump into the Wayback Machine and you can hear Gov. Bruce Rauner, then a candidate, make his point loud and clear: “I want to make Illinois government the most efficient, transparent (state government) in America,” Rauner said in 2014. After winning office, Rauner doubled down. “We’ve got to change that culture and be more responsive,” […]

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, in conjunction with the Mid-West Family Broadcasting Group and the Illinois State Museum, is producing daily radio spots called “bicentennial minutes” which will be broadcast throughout 2018 to help celebrate Illinois’ 200th birthday. The spots will highlight key people, events and dates in Illinois history, spotlighting triumphs such […]

The Springfield & Central Illinois African American History Museum (1440 Monument Ave. in Springfield) will host the opening of a new exhibit honoring the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King on Thursday, Jan. 4, beginning at 5:30 p.m. The exhibit was developed in collaboration with the Illinois State Museum to […]

Sangamon County Historic Preservation Commission (SCHPC) chair Chuck Pell has received the 2017 Illinois Commission Excellence Award in Leadership from the Illinois Association of Historic Preservation Commissions. “It is extremely gratifying to be recognized by our peers from across the state,” said Pell, a Springfield architect. “I think this award represents what we as a […]

We’ve all done it. Gotten sick. Gone on vacation. Just plain forgot. Perhaps, even, procrastinated for no good reason. And when the piper needs paying, the fortunate among us can simply pony up and pay fines for overdue materials from Lincoln Library. A lot of folks cannot, and so they are on the blacklist, barred […]

The Springfield Public Schools Foundation will host “One Eighty Six Books,” its first-ever pop-op book shop, on Saturday, Oct. 14, from 8 a.m.to 4 p.m. at the Old Capitol Farmers Market at 407 E. Adams in downtown Springfield. Proceeds from the event will be used to supply books for school libraries and classrooms district-wide.  “We […]

Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY), a New York based production company, has invited the Hope Presbyterian Church choir, along with choir director Tom Heintzelman, to perform at Carnegie Hall. According to a DCINY press release, the choir had to go through an intensive audition process and were selected by members of the company’s artistic […]