Springfield News

More than a year after a much-lauded compromise paved the way for high-volume oil and gas extraction in Illinois, the agency in charge of overseeing the practice has hired just four of 53 new employees it says it needs as it continues working to complete rules that drillers must follow.

In the very beginning of our summer road trip to explore the Land of Lincoln, we embarked upon Highway 72 in Illinois in Urbana-Champaign , traveled west approximately 50 miles to Decatur, , then another 39 miles into Springfield.

Paul Findley served as a Republican member of United States House of Representatives from Illinois for 22 years.

Learn about Springfield Illinois, the town where Abraham Lincoln begun his political life and experience its tourist attractions such as Lincoln's old law office and the Lincoln Home national historic site.

In 1914: The 19th Congressional District's McKinley Boys' Corn Club is believed to be the largest in the nation, says the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. There are about 1,000 members in the eight counties of ex-Congressman William McKinley's district.

In this June 29, 2014 photo, Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner talks to the congregation at a church in Chicago about his involvement in community education.

Tweeting, Facebooking, Skyping smartphone users are costing U.S. states and cities revenue as taxes rooted in old-fashioned telephone service fail to keep up with the Internet era.

The Toledo, Ohio-based pizzeria chain has contracted with the Springfield-based Family Video to build pizza kitchens inside 175 of the video store chain's 620 existing locations, including another that is planned for the video store at 108 St. Louis Road in Collinsville.

Briana Chick, of Aurora, walks down the recently renovated main stairway leading up to the third floor of the Senate and House chambers July 1 at the state Capitol in Springfield.

Investigators in Springfield are still trying to determine what caused an ATV accident earlier this week that injured two people.

Investigators in Springfield are still trying to determine what caused an ATV accident earlier this week that injured two people.

Concerned about the "decline in patriotic feeling and civic engagement" in present day America, editors Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass and Diana Schaub have compiled a thought-provoking anthology entitled What so Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song.

It all started when Dan's good friend was diagnosed with the disease, which inspired DeBardeleben to make the daunting trip.

Brenda Melissa Hendricks Swedick Credille , 65, formerly of Taylorville, IL & Springfield, IL, passed away June 26, 2014, at Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah, WA.

Illinois and federal officials are teaming up to enforce safe driving this holiday weekend.

An emergency defibrillator, used to treat life threatening conditions that affect the rhythm of the heart such as cardiac arrhythmia, hangs on the wall Tuesday at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White recently honored the winners of his "Be a Hero" organ/tissue donor campaign, which provided students at state community colleges the opportunity to create their own campaigns and earn community service hours while promoting the organ/tissue donor registry.

Sangamon and Menard County Crimestoppers wants to pay cash to anyone who can help solve a recent Springfield armed robbery.

Bruce Rauner is not resting on his laurels after receiving a record-shattering, bombshell $2.5 donation from hedge fund mogul Ken Griffin, the richest person in Illinois.

Citing a pending audit and future negotiations, the Springfield City Council agreed to extend Comcast's franchise agreement through June 2015 instead of this December as initially planned.