The sidewalks of downtown Springfield will be busy again when the excitement of the holiday season returns with a whirlwind ...

Twenty-three years later Barnes and Noble survives, as does Prairie Archives and the Book Rack. The status of the Elf Shelf ...

Stepping onto a glass floor with hundreds of red poppies below, winding through exhibits of artillery and getting a feel for ...

The Springfield and Peoria proposals appeared to be triggered by a June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court involving a city in ...

On Nov. 21, the Senate took a bipartisan vote and passed legislation known as the Dignity in Pay Act, sending it to Gov. JB ...

Hey there, all you happy readers of Now Playing and Illinois Times, I'd like to say thank you, just for you being right here, ...

On Dec. 20, 1900, then-Illinois Gov. John Tanner granted clemency to seven prisoners. Five were boys; four had stolen ...

A legislative committee and the Illinois Department of Agriculture agreed recently to delay finalizing new regulations governing hemp production amid an outcry of protests from small, independent ...

Dignitaries from Springfield and the state were all smiles during a recent grand reopening of Poplar Place, a formerly ...

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Antwaun Readus Sr. started to choke up at the podium as he described how he has been called upon to use his barbering skills to prepare as many as 10 Black adolescents and young men for casket ...

Here we come a-wassailing, among the leaves so green – no, wait a second – it's much too early for that song. Let's please get through Thanksgiving first, which is nearly as late as it can be with ...