U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski is demanding to know why a building management company accused of failing to provide safe and clean ...

If advocates, stakeholders and members of the public were granted all their requests for public school funding next year, ...

Crews dispatched by the city Nov. 24 cleaned up what remained of an encampment of homeless people in the 800 block of North ...

As our community gathers around dinner tables and living rooms this Thanksgiving week, it is impossible not to reflect on the ...

Congress’ “Big Beautiful Bill” that passed last summer could prove to be far more damaging to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Illinois than most people know. A SNAP “death penalty” is ...

It’s unclear whether the Sangamon County Board can, or will, delay a vote for six months or more on zoning, as some residents ...

The director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, Dr. Sameer Vohra, joined a chorus of doctors, epidemiologists and ...

While controversial, the verdict Oct. 29 in the trial of Sean Grayson in the death of Sonya Massey marked one of the few times in recent history that an American police officer became a convicted ...

As we witness state-organized violence directed at Latine, Asian and Black and Brown immigrants and refugees, we recognize ...

The Springfield City Council once again shot down the idea of a landlord registry during a chaotic Nov. 18 meeting, voting ...

Rampant and haphazard growth after the Civil War left Springfield dirty, dangerous, unhealthful and inconvenient. The race riots in 1908 left the city’s worthy citizens with what we might call a ...

This was most recently seen in the Illinois Valley, where hospitals are closing, shelters are overflowing […] ...