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Jennifer Furkin Springfield Plastics
Agriculture
8 months ago
Springfield Plastics names Jennifer Furkin president

Promotion comes as the company expands in Auburn

The first all-girls construction team to compete at SkillsUSA Illinois poses outside the Peoria Civic Center after their competition. From left, Aubrey Levin, Kayhl Miles, Amyla Walls and Catelin Wesley. (Medill Illinois News Bureau photo by Maggie Dougherty)
Education
8 months ago
Challenges persist for women, minorities breaking into Illinois’ skilled trades

Over the past 10 years, women have held fewer than one in 10 construction jobs

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Local
8 months ago
Illinois home sales lower, while prices and inventory go higher

Sales could increase during the summer months, says REALTORS.

gas pump
Local
8 months ago
Gas prices unchanged in last week in Illinois, despite Middle East instability

Gas prices increased in Springfield in the last week

Business
8 months ago
Possible new TIF district worries D-186 school board

No decision yet on Jerome proposal

Adams Street Fire
Local
8 months ago
One year since Adams St. Fire downtown

One year later for a well-traveled section of downtown Springfield

Manish Singh, co-founder and CEO of quantum tech company memQ, speaks to representatives of dozens of Japanese quantum business at a June 10 event in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Business
8 months ago
Inside Illinois’ efforts to court the emerging quantum technology industry

Japanese business delegation visits Chicago, local research park breaking ground ‘soon’

FILE - President Donald Trump talks to workers as he tours U.S. Steel Corporation's Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
Business
8 months ago
Nippon Steel finalizes $15B takeover of US Steel after sealing national security agreement

Includes plants in Illinois

Scheels Sports Park WS
Local
8 months ago
All blown up, but new dome at new sports park not ready yet

Plus, click here to watch a time-lapse video of the dome being inflated, and the full press conference

Local
8 months ago
CWLP signs a 25-year deal for solar power

Construction is expected to begin next year with the facility sending out power by 2028.

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