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The fight between the city of Springfield and Chase Hadez, aka Colton Lexus, is going to the next round. The city filed a petition July 9 with the Sangamon County Seventh Judicial Circuit Court for a preliminary injunction that would require Lexus to immediately cease and desist living in tiny home structures on his property […]

A Dallas-based company hopes to build a 1,100-acre solar project between Divernon Township and Pawnee Township by 2029. Leeward Renewable Energy held an open house Wednesday at the Divernon American Legion, where community members and representatives of the company met to talk about the solar farm’s location, construction, environmental impact and employment potential. Henkle Branch […]

This is a developing story, check back for updates. Several Waverly residents who live approximately a mile or less from the site recently approved for the CyrusOne data center filed a lawsuit against Sangamon County and the Sangamon County Board July 6 seeking to overturn the county’s approval of the project. Chloe Russell, a Plainfield […]

When their announcement went live on their social media platforms the morning of July 9, it would have been understandable if diehard fans of the Springfield Lucky Horseshoes went into panic mode. “As the 2026 season winds down, we wanted to personally share that at the conclusionof the season, we will be stepping away from […]

Less than six months into his 20-year prison sentence, the former sheriff’s deputy convicted of second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed Sangamon County woman is asking the state to release him from prison on medical grounds. Sean Grayson, 32, filed for release under the Joe Coleman Act last month. Under the act, a person […]

Logan County officials are on track to consider and potentially vote on land-use applications for a $5 billion data center near Latham as soon as August after the local state’s attorney declared invalid a 12-month moratorium that the County Board approved in May. Opponents of Hut 8 Corp.’s proposed Logan Prairie Data Center, who supported […]

The Sangamon County Zoning and Land Use Committee discussed ways to regain more local control over renewable energy projects, such as solar and wind farms, in light of a recent state law that restricts authority of municipal governments to veto such developments. At the June 18 meeting, lawyers gave the committee a laundry list of […]

LifeStar Ambulance Service. Inc. has temporarily dropped its lawsuit against Springfield Memorial Hospital to gather proof of what LifeStar considers the hospital’s bias against the company. “We’re still trying to find more evidence,” LifeStar Chief Executive Officer John Wright told Illinois Times. “We need more for a lawsuit.” Associate Circuit Judge Christopher Perrin on June […]

Sangamon County’s recently convened Mental Health Board agreed on a job listing for an executive director position and started discussions about how to organize the Board’s grant structure during its June 24 meeting. Former Massey Commission staff and members also implored the board to avoid filling governmental budget gaps with the nearly $15 million it’s […]

Illinois has seen a record number of tornadoes just six months into the year after a series of spring and summer storms barreled their way across the Midwest, causing millions in damage as federal disaster assistance wanes in Democrat-led states. Experts chalk the sudden increase up to temporary fluctuation, although a small increase over decades […]

Facing strong opposition to a proposed $6 billion data center near Taylorville, a founder of Eagle Rock Partners told the Christian County Board he wouldn’t want to live next door to the center his firm wants to build. But Ken Loeber added that the center, on farm ground two miles southwest of the Christian County […]