The city of Springfield is launching the Springfield Minority Business Institute, a new multi-week educational initiative ...

Safe and stable housing creates the foundation that every person in our community needs to thrive, live a healthy life and ...

Some of Illinois’ top Democrats say they’re open to considering targeted changes to Illinois’ controversial SAFE-T Act this ...

Democratic-led states that were subject to the Trump administration’s freeze on $10 billion in federal funding for child care ...

While sitting for his second Fox News interview of 2025 in late October, Gov. JB Pritzker made a plain observation about ...

As Springfield’s Rail Improvements Project enters its final two years of construction, one Springfield City Council member ...

An international crane manufacturing firm is opening a plant in Springfield that will likely employ more than 100 people on ...

Most of the 250 people who turned out at a public meeting Jan. 5 in Lincoln to hear a Florida-based company’s plans to build ...

A $7.6 million court settlement stemming from a data breach that affected almost 869,000 Hospital Sisters Health System patients will result in average payments of $40 to $50 for 80,000 people. That ...

I hope the title of this column makes at least a few people do a double take! It isn’t every day, after all, that you hear ...

Project Censored released the 2026 edition of its State of the Free Press in November. About a week later, Random Lengths interviewed the book’s editors – Mickey Huff, Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh ...

The Springfield City Council approved a contract worth up to $25,000 for Scott Hanauer, brother of Ward 10 Ald. Ralph Hanauer, at its Jan. 6 meeting. It serves as an extension of a professional ...