Category Archives: Local News
Gas Prices Down Slightly in Springfield
Gasoline prices in the area have been stable over the past month, according to Triple-A. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the Springfield area today is $2.84, about two cents lowe...
Jan 20, 2026 Gas pump (Credit: Marek Studinski; UnSplash)
Phillips Named Miss Illinois County Fair Queen
Krista Phillips of Effingham has been named the 68th Miss Illinois County Fair Queen. Phillips, 21 won the honor over the weekend on the last day of the 115th Annual Illinois Association of Agricultur...
Jan 19, 2026
MLK Day Observed Today
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Federal, state, county and municipal offices are closed, mail and other delivery services are operating limited schedules, markets and most banks are closed and sc...
Jan 19, 2026 alexmillos / Depositphotos.com
Illinois Future PAC Launches First Ad for Stratton
Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton's struggling U.S. Senate campaign finally received some long-awaited air support from an outside political action committee with ties to Governor JB Pritzker - tho...
Jan 19, 2026 Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton talks to Capitol News Illinois at a union office building in Springfield on Wednesday about her campaign to replace outgoing Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Pritzker Signs "Clean Slate Act"
Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically sealed after Governor JB Pritzker on Friday signed the long-debated 'Clean Slate' Act. House B...
Jan 19, 2026
District 186 School Board Recommends a Successor to Superintendent Jennifer Gill
District 186's Board of Education has found their successor to Superintendent Jennifer Gill as the Board is recommending Dr. Terrance Jordan as the District's next superintendent. The Board is expecte...
Jan 16, 2026 Photo Courtesy of Springfield School Board
Giannoulias Warns Illinois Drivers of Text Scams
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is warning Illinois drivers of possible text scams. The texts claim to be from the "Illinois State Department of Motor Vehicles" and threaten to suspend v...
Jan 16, 2026 Jhaymesisviphotography / CC
Ball-Chatham School Bus Rear Ended Friday Morning
A Ball-Chatham School bus was rear ended early Friday morning. Thankfully no students were on the bus at the time and the driver, a Ball-Chatham school district employee, was uninjured. The incident i...
Jan 16, 2026 Per-Olof Forsberg / CC
Unemployment Ticks Up in Springfield Year Over Year
Unemployment in the Springfield area in November increased by half of a percentage point from a year earlier according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security and the U.S. Bureau of Labor St...
Jan 16, 2026 Kevin Smith / CC
Abandoned Apartment Building in Jacksonville Sustains Extensive Fire Damage
Fire extensively damaged an abandoned apartment building west of downtown Jacksonville early Thursday morning. Firefighters were called before 6 am to the 300 block of West State Street, where the thr...
Jan 16, 2026 fire fighter (Credit: Joachim Pressl; UnSplash)