The Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission recommended Wednesday that HCI Alternatives, one of two medical marijuana dispensaries in Sangamon County, be permitted to sell recreational marijuana at their current downtown site and a secondary site on the city's east side and that an area for on-site consumption be allowed in the former once adult use becomes legal Jan. 1.

Richard L. Guebert Jr. of Ellis Grove was re-elected as president of the Illinois Farm Bureau at its meeting earlier this month in Chicago.

While temperatures in some outlying areas hit the single digits Wednesday, the thermometer should rise steadily through the weekend.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump became the third president in history to be impeached after the House on Wednesday charged him with "high crimes and misdemeanors" over his request to Ukraine to investigate political rivals.

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    The partisan split that divides Washington was just as evident in Springfield Wednesday as residents reacted to the U.S. House debating the impeachment of  President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON - A generation has passed since the last presidential impeachment trial in the Senate, though in political terms, it may seem like a lifetime.

WASHINGTON - After a rancorous, bitterly partisan face-off in the House over the impeachment of President Donald Trump, the matter moves to the Senate where leaders are making plans for a trial.  Spoiler alert: It's going to be rancorous and bitterly partisan as well.

The first thing Sara Gwaltney's class did Wednesday with its new puppet stand was to put on a show of "Old McDonald Had A Farm." So with an "oink, oink here" and an "oink, oink there," the class said its thanks for the gift from Horace Mann employees.