Lincoln Land Community College has named Curt Oldfield as its next president. Oldfield currently is president of Spoon River ...

More than 700 Illinois schools are within a quarter-mile of crop fields, yet state law doesn’t require pesticide applicators ...

Fancy this. my fellow February friends. Suppose you live in a world that offers live music at a reasonable price (often free) ...

Justin Conder is only 40 years old with a sturdy build and firm handshake, but gray already specks his otherwise brown hair. It’s quite possible a frustrating, eight-year odyssey to obtain a state ...

Great uncle George Trever was pastor of the Beloit Methodist Church maybe 1890. He was an explosive speaker, and the family story goes that he shot out his false teeth, which landed in the lap of a ...

Miguel Valente, a 25-year-old budget analyst in the Illinois Governor’s Office of Management and Budget is running in the March 17 Democratic primary for the Sangamon County Board’s 18th District, ...

Event celebrates Lincoln’s love of reading Celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s love of reading and lifelong learning with the Lincolns4Lincoln Literacy Jam, benefiting Compass for Kids’ afterschool program.

Oh, would some power gift us / To see ourselves as others see us!” For me, that power turned out to be YouTube. I am a latecomer to the video blog posts of transportation planning and engineering ...

Members of Sonya Massey’s family, who declared victory with the recent sentencing of her killer to a 20-year prison term, say they hope her tragic death leads to policy changes in Sangamon County and ...

Plans for a $500 million data center to be built by Dallas-based CyrusOne in rural southwest Sangamon County could receive ...

We live in a world – the real world, Jake – that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by ...

Pamela Franks, owner of Playful Steps Child Care, has been taking care of low-income children and their families in her ...