Gov. JB Pritzker's 2026 budget proposal includes $300 million for a first-of-its-kind "Surplus to Success" program that would ...

A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln more than two decades before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation as president is the subject of a ...

Gov. JB Pritzker's 2026 budget proposal includes $300 million for a first-of-its-kind "Surplus to Success" program that would develop old, unused or excess state-owned sites into opportunities for ...

Blood Drive: 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Jacksonville Memorial Hospital, 1600 W. Walnut St. | To donate, contact ImpactLife Springfield at 800-747-5401 or visit bloodcenter.org and use code 60058 to locate the ...

Grants worth nearly $3 million from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) are heading to Springfield ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has announced $2,890,226 in funding to the City of Springfield to replace lead ...

Sangamon County Circuit Clerk Joe Roesch’s office is letting people apply for a passport over the weekend. Agents with Roesch ...

Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine will present historian Megan Kate Nelson, author of the 2020 book “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the ...

An artist’s sketch of a woman hidden on concrete walls deep in the undercroft, or basement, of the Lincoln Memorial for over a century may be graffiti of the early film star Theda Bara ...

When a pope dies or resigns, it is up to the College of Cardinals to elect a new pope. Any Roman Catholic male can be elected, but since 1379 every pope has been selected from the College of ...

When Abraham Lincoln was about 19 years old ... The boat was set afloat in the Sangamon River at Springfield, Ill. The trip was going well until he reached New Salem where, despite the high ...