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President Biden
Local
1 year ago
Two Illinois women among the more than 1,500 granted clemency by Biden

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of about 1,500 people released during the pandemic and pardoned 39 nonviolent offenders, including two Illinois women. This is the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

Capitol North Wing
Local
1 year ago
Recent incidents prompt heightened Statehouse security

Visitors may experience longer lines at entrances during upcoming sessions

IDOT plow cab door
Local
1 year ago
Pritzker taps Gia Biagi to lead IDOT

Governor JB Pritzker has appointed Gia Biagi as the new Secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation, pending Senate approval. Biagi, an experienced urban planner, previously led the Chicago Department of Transportation.

UIS Athletics
Sports
1 year ago
This Week in UIS Athletics: Men’s & Women’s Basketball

The UIS basketball teams are back at the TRAC this week.

Springfield Police squad
Crime
1 year ago
Three juveniles arrested after stolen vehicle chase in Springfield

Although all three juveniles met the criteria for incarceration, two were released to guardians and one was transported to the juvenile detention center in Peoria.

Amy Raising
Business
1 year ago
Amy Rasing appointed as director of Office of Planning and Economic Development

Rasing has been with the city for over a year as the grants operations coordinator.

Scales of justice
Crime
1 year ago
Springfield man charged with threatening president Biden, other officials

Jacob Sterr, 36, allegedly made the threats on X late last month.

Clyde Bunch
Local
1 year ago
Longest-serving Sangamon County Board member Clyde Bunch dies at 88

“He was the board’s living link to its past who never lost his focus on providing for the future.”
– Sangamon County Board Chairman Andy Van Meter

Assault rifle
Local
1 year ago
Appeals court keeps Illinois’ assault weapons ban in place

7th Circuit blocks, for now, lower court’s order that held the law unconstitutional.