John Browning’s masterpiece 1911 remains a popular self-defense and concealed-carry handgun that sometimes overshadows his other masterpiece handgun, the High Power. Just as the slide and barrel of ...

Chicago, want your bag tax to jump to 25 cents? That’s essentially what will happen if the state of Illinois passes a new measure aimed at creating a statewide bag fee similar to Chicago’s existing ...

In response to a series of controversies regarding Springfield city boards and commissions the past few weeks, Springfield City Council will vote on sending several related issues to committee at its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WEST SPRINGFIELD — The West Springfield Fire Department’s business phone lines were restored Thursday after a problem at the ...

Springfield has a large homeless population and local high school senior wants to bring attention to the issue. Springfield High School senior Bella Narcelles has launched a social media campaign to ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Springfield is reviving its Springfield Green beautification effort with a fresh push on litter pickup and Adopt-a-Street cleanups as the city prepares for what officials expect to be a record tourism ...

SPRINGFIELD — The vision is grand. In this city with a reputation as a down-on-its-luck former manufacturing hub, where the median income is $53,000 and a quarter of residents live in poverty, in a ...

The cities of Springfield and Eugene are considering forming an Intergovernmental Entity (IGE) to govern the Eugene Springfield Fire department. Officials face two main options: create the IGE or ...

Springfield City Council members appeared optimistic about continuing discussions with the city of Eugene to support development of an Intergovernmental Entity (IGE) as the new governance model for ...

An employee at a Springfield restaurant dropped a cooked potato on the floor and then put it back in a container of cooked potatoes to serve, according to a Dec. 3 report by the Springfield-Greene ...

For years, residents across Illinois have voiced understandable frustration about rising municipal taxes. But the truth is, much of what drives those local costs doesn’t start at the village hall it ...