Built in 1880 by a congregation comprised of formerly enslaved people and their descendants, the church is an enduring, ...

Since 2021, when Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill to commemorate June 19, 1865, the date when the last enslaved Black people in ...

Twenty boys from The Outlet created their own quilt squares and artist statements telling their personal stories about what ...

In 2023, out of 11,516 traffic stops – a 54% increase since 2021 – 51% of the drivers involved were Black. Black people make ...

An immigrant advocacy organization that recently opened a Springfield office is celebrating its expansion of services with a ...

Look out, folks, June is coming in hot with all kinds of live music happening here, there and everywhere. Let's get going and ...

The Culture Experience was founded two years ago by the mother-daughter duo of Alice Ivy-Wilson and Haley Williams as an ...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office is appealing that decision, arguing that the weapons banned under the law such ...

The Armory auditorium's existing hardwood floor will be repaired and restored where possible, and a portion of the original ...

This deservingly lauded play runs only one weekend at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, and in order to do a write-up, I ...

It's not often one gets a chance to "step back in time and groove to the golden era of rock 'n' roll," but that opportunity ...

Four development groups have told Sangamon County officials they may be interested in building a 200- to 300-bed hotel on a county-owned parking lot along South Ninth Street and collaborating with the ...