"It's important the community knows we exist and that there's a place they can go for prosecution, child protection, mental ...

Curtis lives with his wife, Sharon, in Springfield, and they don't plan to leave. The couple have two adult children, and ...

Off we go into the wilds of our music scene in the midst of April as consistent warmer weather approaches with each passing ...

According to Republican state Sen. Steve McClure of Springfield, Illinois should focus on attracting and retaining businesses ...

After graduation from college, he was an ambulance driver in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when he was recruited by the Centers for Disease Control and relocated to St. Louis, where he became a public ...

While many Illinois Democrats wait anxiously to hear whether U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin will run for reelection in 2026 or step ...

Yeppers, it is officially April of 2025 and we're right in the thick of the first weekend with plenty of live music to muster ...

Treadwell was injured in the early 2000s, when Oxycontin – the drug that kicked off the opioid epidemic – was being over-prescribed. Treadwell had never heard of the drug until he was one of the many ...

Cleodious "J.R." Schoffner Jr. sits in a visitor's room at Lawrence Correctional Center, a small, cinderblock box with a guard posted outside the heavy metal door. His lanky, 6-foot frame is swallowed ...

It's said one person's junk is another's treasure. In that vein, a budget proposal before Illinois lawmakers would use $500 million to turn some of Illinois' biggest state-owned eyesores into economic ...

A new Illinois law prohibits discrimination against individuals based on their position on abortion, but Catholic Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield is challenging its constitutionality. "States ...

Imagine being owed $1 million and going years without collecting. Emails are sent, with no response. Phone calls aren't returned. Knocking on the door doesn't do any good because no one seems to ever ...