Logan Bricker is a master's degree student in the UIS Public Affairs Reporting program, working this semester as an intern ...

How many "r's" in your "brrrr" this week? Well, it's too cold to count them so let's just be thrilled and chilled to the ...

A six-year legal battle recently came to an end with longtime GOP powerbroker Don Tracy claiming victory. In 2019, the Illinois executive inspector general found the Springfield lawyer engaged in a ...

When Gregory L. Fraase described the conditions that women working in his Asian massage parlors endured when they were growing up overseas, his words highlighted the way he and others may have taken ...

A nonprofit that wants to build tiny homes on Springfield's southeast side faces more big hurdles after the Springfield City Council on Feb. 11 unanimously voted to withdraw a resolution to commit ...

The citrus season is in full swing in the southern U.S., and I just returned from our annual Florida vacation with two 15-pound mesh bags of oranges and satsumas. Rather than letting them languish and ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has proposed growing spending by about $2 billion without new income or service taxes in the upcoming fiscal year – though his administration acknowledged policy changes by the Trump ...

Springfield City Council members on Feb. 18 approved $1.5 million in city funding for a 50-home addition to the Nehemiah Expansion affordable-housing project on the east side. The two 10-0 votes – to ...

"The United States intends to withdraw from the WHO," Donald Trump wrote in one of his many executive orders issued on Jan. 20. Public health officials – locally, nationally and globally – are alarmed ...

With a deadline approaching for U.S. citizens to obtain Real IDs, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is urging Illinois residents to “Get Real.” Real ID is a federally-standardized ...

When: Tue., March 18, 4:30-6:30 p.m.