Category Archives: Local News

The Springfield Sangamon Growth Alliance is highlighting continued economic growth in the area in the past year. The public-private sector partnership said highlights from 2025 included the completion...

Budget analysts both inside and outside state government ward that a multi-billion-dollar budget crisis will hit the state's Medicaid program in the next few years unless state lawmakers and Governor ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...