Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Springfield

Yes, they can? Springfield pays long-awaited tribute to Obama’s historic White House launch: ‘History doesn’t always move quickly’

The new historic marker stands outside the Old State Capitol, where then Sen. Barack Obama launched his presidential bid on a brutally cold February day in 2007 —but unlike Obama, Pritzker and the others who unveiled the marker on Wednesday made their remarks indoors.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois commemorates Barack Obama’s 2007 presidential announcement with marker at Old State Capitol

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The weather turned frigid in the state capital on Wednesday, just in time for the dedication of a marker commemorating the day nearly 16 years ago when thousands braved single-digit temperatures to see then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announce his 2008 presidential bid from the steps of the…

Chicago Tribune

Pritzker announces bipartisan deal with business and labor to pay off unemployment fund debt: ‘We can find common ground’

Pritzker announced the state had reached a deal via the agreed bill process to contribute $1.8 billion and add $450 million as an interest-free loan to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. Lawmakers are in Springfield for the fall veto session — and changes to the massive criminal justice package…

Chicago Sun-Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Melbourne outlasts Brisbane Lions in AFLW grand final to claim historic premiership

Led by inspirational captain Daisy Pearce, Melbourne is crowned AFLW premiers after prevailing by four points in a nail-biting grand final against the Brisbane Lions in Springfield.

ABC News

A House renovated: Automated flagpole to sit atop Springfield site where Lincoln delivered historic anti-slavery speech

A helicopter removed the old manual flagpole from the dome of the Old State Capitol this week in preparation for installing an automated one as part of an ongoing renovation project. Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama both made history at the historic building.

Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial: How casinos broke their promises to the struggling downtowns of Illinois

Back in 1992, William Weidner, then president of Hollywood Casino of Aurora Inc., set out to Springfield to kill then-Mayor Richard M. Daley’s plans for a $2 billion “mega-casino” in downtown Chicago.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Turn ’em over, Donald: Congress has a right to see Trump’s taxes

When Richie Neal was mayor of Springfield, in Western Massachusetts, in the 1980s, Donald Trump was a lying Manhattan real estate promoter who routinely cheated those who were foolish enough to do business with him. God knows what Trump’s tax returns looked like, but those suspect documents were a matter…

Tribune News Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Man robs bank with a demand note written on the back of his own birth certificate

Michael Conley Loyd, 30, from Missouri, stormed into a Bank of America branch in Springfield in July, 2021, stole $754 and quickly escaped in a stolen black pickup truck

Daily Mirror

Brisbane Lions' Springfield training facility for AFLW grand final questioned as being too small and limiting

The decision to host the AFLW grand final between Brisbane and Melbourne at the Lions' new training facility in Springfield described as limiting growth and access to the game.

ABC News

Brisbane Lions' new Springfield home cleared to host AFLW grand final

The Brisbane Lions receive permission to host the AFLW grand final at the club's new training base in Springfield.

ABC News

Brisbane clear to host AFLW grand final

Brisbane's newly-built Springfield headquarters will be the venue for the AFLW grand final if the Lions earn the right to host it.

AAP

New state Senate GOP leader welcomes billionaires’ bucks but warns party must ‘diversify our fundraising’

“We have to broaden that appeal because we’re getting heavily outspent in all our races all across the state,” new state Senate Minority Leader John Curran said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Valuable Lincoln artifacts are taken from a Springfield museum as feuding with a not-for-profit intensifies

The fate of 1,500-plus artifacts, including some tied to Lincoln’s murder, is unclear as a foundation pulls items out of a state Lincoln museum.

Chicago Sun-Times

Inside AT&T’s alleged ‘conspiracy’ to bribe powerbrokers at the Illinois Capitol

WBEZ and the Sun-Times have learned the identities of three former top phone-company lobbyists with ties to a Springfield corruption scandal as former AT&T President La Schiazza, pleaded not guilty to five criminal counts in federal court Friday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker insider Nikki Budzinski cashing in as a consultant since leaving state government

In 10 months, she has made more than $500,000 from a lobbyist, Democratic groups that don’t disclose their contributors and political and labor groups. She’s now running for Congress.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot’s extra pension payments don’t let Springfield off the hook, Civic Federation says

State laws created the police, fire, laborers and municipal employees pension funds, and state lawmakers have a responsibility to consolidate, reform and fund local pension plans, says Civic Federation President Laurence Msall.

Chicago Sun-Times

Record review: Bailey proud to be lawmaker who tells truth about Illinois’ decline — not one who makes lots of laws

Few of his initiatives wind up in state law books, but they have all helped Bailey quickly make a name for himself as a firebrand devoted to conservative ideology. That includes pride in how few of his bills pass. “We do not need more government — more government like J.B.…

Insider UK

Springfield Properties reports record profits

Scottish housebuilder also completes a record 1,242 during the last financial year

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Sun-Times

State Sen. Michael Hastings, whose wife accused him of domestic violence, faces mounting political, personal issues

The state spent nearly $150,000 to settle a civil discrimination case involving the Frankfort Democrat. But Hastings faces serious new personal accusations from his estranged wife that threaten to derail his once-promising political career.

Edinburgh Live

Rejected plan for 160 West Lothian homes on farmland goes to appeal

Villagers in Dechmont say the character of their community will be lost if 160 new homes are allowed on surrounding fields

Chicago Tribune

Illinois GOP attorney general candidate has record of taking critics to court, including his girlfriend’s mom and the governor

CHICAGO — While running for a downstate school board seat five years ago, Republican Illinois attorney general candidate Thomas DeVore complained in a Facebook post about students who struggled to make correct change at a concession stand during a basketball game.

Chicago Sun-Times

Asian American candidates in Illinois aim to break state records — and ‘the bamboo ceiling’

At least 22 Asian American candidates are running for offices in the November election and next year’s city elections, not to mention others running in other local races across the state.

Tribune News Service

Tim Hardaway enters Basketball Hall of Fame thanking Heat for support, ‘when everybody thought I was done’

As he had emphasized ahead of Saturday night’s induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Tim Hardaway pointed to his second career chapter as a takeoff point to his path to the Springfield, Mass., shrine.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois man pleads guilty to assaulting police officer during Capitol attack

Shane Woods, of Auburn, was arrested June 24, 2021, in Springfield.

Chicago Sun-Times

Drag racers, drifters and unruly spectators would face prison time under new proposal in Springfield

The bill was introduced after Chicago police officials struggled to respond to the street takeovers and drag racing that gave way to clashes with police and possibly left a woman dead this weekend.

1 … 17 18 19 20

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.