Last May, several Illinois House Democrats complained bitterly that their mass transit negotiators were ignored and even shut out by the Senate Democratic mass transit negotiators. The House members ...

When Jose Jeronimo Guardian showed up at a Spanish language traffic court last week, he didn’t expect to be detained and face expulsion from a country he’d lived in for more than two decades. Guardian ...

Demolition of the former Pillsbury Mills site began last month, but Pritzker was visiting to announce who was funding the ...

House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch presents his bill that aims to limit where federal officials can enforce civil immigration law during the early hours of Oct. 31. Credit: CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS ...

Illinoisans could see a new line item on their electric bills under a bill passed Wednesday night by the Illinois House.

A second-degree murder conviction for former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson on Oct. 29 in the death of Sonya ...

See the results Every year, we ask our opinionated readers to tell us about their favorite people, places and things in the ...

Every year, we ask our opinionated readers to tell us about their favorite people, places and things in the Springfield area. Over the decades we’ve been doing this, we’ve continued to tweak both the ...

On Nov. 4, 1842, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd were married in the home of her older sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth and Ninian Edwards. That old Edwards home is long gone – demolished in 1918 to ...

Grab those little ghouls and goblins and have a wild time wandering through the zoo’s spectacularly spooky Halloween scenes for some safe trick-or-treating, festive fun and Halloween magic. Costumes ...