Agriculture
3 weeks ago
Pork Producers make food bank donation for holidays

More than fifty tons of processed pork will help make the season bright.

Donated blood
Health & Wellness
3 weeks ago
ImpactLife urges community to give blood as donations drop around holidays

As we inch closer to the holidays, ImpactLife said donation rates tend to decline.

Health & Wellness
3 weeks ago
How to have a stress-free holiday

The holidays are stressful for most of everyone. Here are some ways you can have a stress-free holiday.

Behavioral health
Health & Wellness
3 weeks ago
Behavioral healthcare parity law awaiting Pritzker’s approval

Insurance companies are opposed to the measure.

Leon and Mercedes Wells hold their newborn daughter Alena at their home in the Chicago suburb of Dolton, Ill. on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)
Health & Wellness
4 weeks ago
Delayed care to 2 Black pregnant women highlights maternal health disparities

Wells, the Illinois mother, was admitted to a different hospital a week after giving birth, after experiencing shortness of breath.

Gov. JB Pritzker signs House Bill 767 at a Dec. 2 news conference in Chicago. He said the bill will protect Illinoisians using science-backed guidelines, rather than “junk science” used by the federal administration under the guidance of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (CNI photo by Maggie Dougherty)
Health & Wellness
4 weeks ago
Pritzker signs bill allowing Illinois to issue state-specific vaccine guidelines

The new law will allow the state to publish guidelines that differ from the CDC.

Springfield Memorial Hospital sign
Local
1 month ago
Memorial Health Foundation gives back to the community

Springfield Memorial Foundation is taking donations of money, and time to help them become better.

Springfield Fire Crews were on the scene Wednesday morning for a fire at the Sangamon Towers apartment complex.
Local
1 month ago
Budzinski intervenes in local housing dispute on behalf of low-income residents

Affordable housing advocates say this type of issue could become more common with proposed HUD cuts.

FILE - The Rev. Jesse Jackson listens to speakers at the Tabernacle Baptist Church during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
IL State News
1 month ago
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson leaves hospital after treatment for neurological disorder

A protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the two-time presidential candidate and internationally known founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition was hospitalized Nov. 14.