The Springfield City Council recognized some local talent and the life of a special citizen during its last meeting of the ...

On March 27, Executive Director Brendan Griesemer greeted visitors at an open house at 1923 N. Campbell Ave., a tidy white ...

Nearly a century after the Civil Conservation Corps reconstructed the once-thriving village of New Salem where Abraham ...

Get your shovels and metal detectors ready for some good old fashioned historical hole digging in this week's edition of ...

Historian and journalist Clay Risen in his new book, “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America” ...

Our mayor needs to lead here, and he can start by breaking ties with the Chicago Teachers Union and other unions and seek a ...

Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a controversial bill that would place a number of regulations on homeschooling as a few thousand opponents occupied the State Capitol building ...

The Chicago Sun-Times, which bills itself as the hardest-working newspaper in America, may have to work even harder after ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and the Illinois Capital Development Board (CDB) announced on Wednesday ...

The last University of Illinois board of trustees meeting before commencement is set for Thursday in Springfield. Here’s a ...

Jill Friday said her Spanish language classrooms at Southeast High School in Springfield last year often felt like student living rooms, with kids scrolling on their phones, ...

February 12 marks the birth of one of the greatest leaders of the United States of America. On February 12, 1809 one person ...