
Illinois State Fair Grandstand shows will be purchasable at the Grandstand box-office this Thursday
If you want tickets to Illinois State Fair Grandstand shows, but aren’t a big fan of Ticketmaster, you’ll have another option for tickets later this week. The Grandstand box office opens Thursday for in-person ticket purchases. In

Chair of the Sangamon Valley Sierra Club Nick Dodson talks the proposed interstate CO2 pipline: The facts, outcry, and potential dangers for Illinois and beyond
The world is shared. It is inhabited by animals – even ourselves – and plants, and is stocked and chocked full of minerals, natural occurrences of the planet, and variations of climate and environment. These variations have

Springfield woman escapes serious injury, house severely damaged in Sunday morning blaze
An 84-year-old woman escaped serious injury, but her home was badly damaged in a weekend fire in Springfield. Fire Chief Ed Canny, Jr. says heavy flame was showing from the front of the home on North 7th

SPD investigating Sunday morning stabbings that sent several individuals to hospital
Springfield police are investigating a stabbing Sunday morning that sent several people to the hospital. The victim was found in the 19-hundred block of South 16th Street with wounds to his head and back; the 26-year-old man’s

State officials still struggling to move individuals from Sangamon County Jail to appropriate mental health facilities
Even with more lenient guidelines now in place, state officials are still struggling to move individual inmates with mental health issues out of the Sangamon County Jail in a timely fashion. State law was recently changed to

Springfield GOP State Representative Coffey indignant after experiencing first budgetary process as state official
A Springfield lawmaker is expressing frustration in the aftermath of his first state budget process. Republican state Representative Mike Coffey was appointed to his seat back in January; he says it’s “unconscionable” for the legislature to approve