After more than a year of negotiations, the Illinois General Assembly passed “Karina’s Bill” on Jan. 7 with bipartisan ...

Across the intersection of Fourth and Adams streets, the 400 block of East Adams Street has been closed to vehicular traffic ...

A Springfield priest experiencing renal failure is receiving a new kidney from a donor living in North Carolina, who he has ...

The five structures are part of the 23-building Olde Towne apartment complex, located at the corner of Jefferson Street and ...

Longtime Springfield alderperson Chuck Redpath was appointed city clerk Jan. 7 by a divided City Council after a raucous, two ...

Here's to all that holiday Happy New Year hodgepodge being gone and moving on to the regular music-making we do here in Now ...

The Sangamon County Department of Public Health's building on Springfield's east side is on the brink of a ...

Illinois lawmakers could consider easing requirements for residents to change their names, a move proponents say will reduce ...

The minimum wage in Illinois has increased to $15 an hour as of Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition period since the ...

The KIND Act would allow DCFS to pursue additional federal funding in order to apply a kin-first approach. DCFS would use the ...

Atmika Iyer is a graduate student in journalism with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, and a Fellow in its Medill Illinois News Bureau ...