A classroom window at McClernand Elementary School, 801 S.

Area schools are getting a boost to improve students' access to remote learning technology, State Senator Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, recently announced.

Donnie Lewis, a Democratic precinct committeeman from Springfield, showed up at the Sangamon County Complex at 6:35 a.m. Thursday, hoping to be the first in line when early voting began at 8:30 a.m. He didn't quite make it.

A Jersey County man died as the result of injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash on Illinois 267 at Illinois 111 in Macoupin County early Wednesday.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have jumped sharply, according to the latest data from the Illinois Department of Public Health, while the number of continued unemployment claims in the state increased from the week prior.

A school bus that serves as a mobile recording studio and was created as part of a University of Illinois Springfield and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty collaboration will make its first visit to Springfield on Saturday.

Senate Republicans have entered the ethics debate with a package of bills they say is focused on cleaning up the General Assembly.

A patient of the McFarland Mental Health Center has been formally charged in an incident in which he allegedly strangled another female patient.

The Christian-Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency reported 60 new COVID-19 cases in Christian County Thursday afternoon, a spike fueled by an outbreak at a Taylorville long-term care facility.