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 ...

It's Lake Springfield's 90th anniversary. Share favorite memories, scenic shots and moments of joy on and around the lake. Whether it’s a sunrise on the water, a family picnic, fishing with friends, ...

Laura Keyes will portray Elizabeth Packard, unjustly committed to Jacksonville State Hospital in 1860, at Illinois College’s Sibert Theater. Inspired by Kate Moore’s The Woman They Could Not Silence, ...