Springfield News

Senator Dick Durbin's latest campaign report says he's got more than $6 million in the bank for his re-election bid this year, including about $771,000 he's raised since January.

Mark your calendar, the Springfield Old State Capitol Art Fair is coming to town! Held May 17th and 18th, 2014, this year is the 53rd annual show that is held on the lawn of Springfield's Old State Capitol Plaza.

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced applications for special event license plates honoring the 50th anniversary of one of America's iconic automobiles, the Ford Mustang, are now being accepted by his office.

The board was short two members with the resignation of Terry Carlton in December and the recent passing of Bill Martin.

People mailing their tax returns Tuesday at several post offices in Illinois were greeted by supporters of moving the state to a progressive income tax.

The Illinois Association of SkillsUSA held its 50th annual Leadership and Skills Conference in Springfield, Illinois on April 3- 5. The conference leadership and skill events were held at the Prairie Capital Convention Center, the Capital Area Career Center, the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Robert Morris College and Springfield Hilton Hotel.

The Illinois State Rifle Association is urging its members to pack a suburban Democrat's town hall meeting Thursday even though the gathering isn't intended to have anything to do with guns.

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Bloomington, IL- Mikaela Wieland of Princeville, Ill., has been named the Illinois state winner of the 2014 GROWMARK essay contest for FFA members.

Amazing is one word I'd use to describe it. Inspiring would be another. That's just two of the reactions I had when looking over the nominations we received this year for E&P's 10 Newspapers That Do It Right.

A former associate professor of business administration claims in a federal lawsuit that the University of Illinois Springfield banned him from campus and denied him emeritus status because of his race and Iranian origin.

Increasing fuel taxes to pay for Illinois road construction will hurt businesses -- and hit consumers at the pump, gas station owners said Monday.

A proposed bill in Illinois banning the sale and distribution of natural or "raw" milk, is not going anywhere this session after legislators heard from "thousands" of natural milk proponents.

David Gill, who lost the 13th Congressional District race two years ago by 1,002 votes - or less than 4/10ths a percentage point - said Saturday that he would not run an independent campaign for the seat.

A full-size replica of a steam locomotive that pulled Abraham Lincoln's funeral car will visit Ohio this week.

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, listens to lawmakers during a House committee hearing April 1 at the Capitol in Springfield.

Klocke is building what he hopes will be a historic project: a full-size replica of the funeral train car that carried Lincoln's body in 1865 from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Ill.

Ryan was absolute kryptonite at the time - 2006 - freshly convicted at federal trial for a series of schemes and awaiting sentencing.

A former professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield has claimed in a federal lawsuit that the school banned him from campus and denied him emeritus status because of his race and Iranian origin.

Music was everywhere during the Civil War - at public events, in the home and even on the battlefield.