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A Sangamon County jury awarded $38.4 million to a former HSHS St. John’s Hospital employee who was injured when a defective operating room boom collapsed on her, finding the medical equipment manufacturer to be liable. The several-hundred-pound boom, used for docking medical equipment on a swivel arm, injured Stacey Brown to the point of requiring […]

As he closed his address before gathered members of the Illinois General Assembly and Gov. JB Pritzker in the Illinois Capitol on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin invoked the words of another favorite son of Springfield. “Abraham Lincoln, in the House Divided speech that he gave here in Springfield, gave a grim warning that the […]

Following in the footsteps of New York and California, Illinois state lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that seeks to increase transparency and accountability among the largest and most capable artificial intelligence models. Senate Bill 315 passed unanimously in the House with Wednesday and now heads to the governor for consideration. Legislators modeled the bill after 2025 […]

LifeStar Ambulance Service officials say they will continue to press their case in court after failing to convince a judge May 22 that the company shouldn’t be kicked out of Springfield and Sangamon County’s 911 emergency response system. “We will continue to contest it until hell freezes over,” LifeStar owner Roger Campbell told Illinois Times […]

A proposal to amend Sangamon County’s data center ordinance remained tabled following the county’s May 21 Zoning and Land Use Committee meeting. The two-page ordinance, Chapter 17.39 of Sangamon County Code, was quietly introduced last spring and passed the County Board without issue in July. Since then, board members and proponents of the area’s first […]

Logan County officials approved a one-year moratorium on data center projects with a 6-4 vote May 19. That vote occurred less than a month after the Champaign County Board voted to enact its own yearlong moratorium with an 11-3 vote. The project proposed by Hut 8, a publicly traded company from Florida, would have been […]

Four Sangamon and Logan County marijuana businesses received a total of nearly $2 million in direct forgivable loans last month from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as part of the Cannabis Social Equity Loan Program. Two craft grow businesses received $750,000 each in forgivable loans – Lincoln Labs and Rt. 66 Rec. […]

Legal proceedings between the owner of the vacant Wyndham Springfield City Centre Hotel and the hotel’s insurance company may be nearing resolution, but no details about what that resolution may look like have been made public. The lawsuit between plaintiffs Full Service Hospitality LLC and Tower Capital Group — entities both associated with Wyndham owner Al […]

A proposed 1,730-acre solar development south of New Berlin is drawing growing opposition from residents, local officials and business owners who fear the project could permanently alter the rural character of western Sangamon County, even as developers argue the project could provide clean energy, stable tax revenue and economic diversification for farmers.  The project, which […]

Together Women Rise is “a beacon of hope,” says CEO Beverley Francis-Gibson. This national nonprofit, formerly called Dining for Women, funds projects that change the lives of women and girls in countries with higher levels of poverty, income inequality, lower life expectancy and harsh living conditions. Collective giving by nearly 5,000 members makes this possible. […]

A proposal that would expand access to a federal program that discounts the price of prescription drugs could end up costing Illinois employers an additional $89 million a year, including more than $12 million a year for the state of Illinois itself. That’s according to a memo, dated May 12, from the Department of Central […]

Sangamon County officials revealed an artificial intelligence-driven logo concept to commemorate America’s 250 years of independence and 100 years of Route 66 at the May 12 county board meeting. The logo, which District 17 board member Annette Fulgenzi said has some things to clean up, appears to depict Sangamon County with Christian County’s borders appended […]