The Springfield and Peoria proposals appeared to be triggered by a June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court involving a city in ...

Twenty-three years later Barnes and Noble survives, as does Prairie Archives and the Book Rack. The status of the Elf Shelf ...

The sidewalks of downtown Springfield will be busy again when the excitement of the holiday season returns with a whirlwind ...

Stepping onto a glass floor with hundreds of red poppies below, winding through exhibits of artillery and getting a feel for ...

Hey there, all you happy readers of Now Playing and Illinois Times, I'd like to say thank you, just for you being right here, ...

On Nov. 21, the Senate took a bipartisan vote and passed legislation known as the Dignity in Pay Act, sending it to Gov. JB ...

More youth programs are needed to intervene in the lives of young people to prevent them from becoming victims or ...

I recently learned that several counties are hoping to leave our state. While this seems legally dubious, the sentiment ...

The lawsuit, filed Nov. 21 in federal court in Chicago by the Thomas More Society, seeks to prevent the state from requiring ...

The Thanksgiving holiday which we will celebrate ing the coming week is a time for family gatherings and festive meals and ...

Board games offer opportunities to teach turn-taking, communication skills, strategy and more, and they make a great family-friendly gift for the holidays. Ryan Leake, owner of Little Lincoln's Toy ...

Dignitaries from Springfield and the state were all smiles during a recent grand reopening of Poplar Place, a formerly ...