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Mayor Langfelder to propose 4% natural gas tax Mayor Jim Langfelder has changed course and will soon propose a 4 percent natural gas tax to help with pension payments,… Read more >>

Aldermen locked out of the municipal building. The mayor said it wasn't personal. After an explosive - or as Mayor Jim Langfelder called it, "spirited" - debate during Tuesday's Committee of the Whole m… Read more >>

2016 report put Quincy veterans' home plumbing fix at $8M Engineers told Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration 18 months ago that replacing problematic plumbing at a veterans' home … Read more >>

Former Lanphier player among the latest Legionnaires' cases in Quincy A former Lanphier High School basketball standout who went on to serve in the Air Force and be named to the Springfield … Read more >>

Inmates who applauded alleged Chicago cop killer may face reprisals CHICAGO - Five Cook County Jail inmates who applauded as the man charged with the fatal shooting of a Chicago police com… Read more >>

PORTA's Trey Hild reaches state wrestling title match

CHAMPAIGN - Trey Hild and Zach Haley will meet one more time, and one of them will be a state champion for the first tim…

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Can middle-class candidate Daniel Biss defeat millionaires in Illinois? CHICAGO - In an Illinois governor race that includes a couple millionaires and a billionaire, Daniel Biss likes to tell … Read more >>

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception school to close The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception will close its parish school at the end of this school year, the Diocese of S… Read more >>

Glenwood senior starts nonprofit to help poor Indian students improve vision CHATHAM - If he takes his glasses off, Ishan Agarwall may as well have a blindfold on."I can't read anything 2 feet away… Read more >>

This is how Springfield will market itself for Illinois' 200th birthday With Illinois' 200th birthday happening this year, Springfield wants all eyes on it.HIP Advertising, a local agency, pre… Read more >>

Some local school districts were already planning active-shooter drills before Florida incident Illinois law requires school districts to conduct safety drills to be prepared in the case of a shooting, like the one i… Read more >>

Superintendents worried about Rauner's pension shift proposal Public school administrators who just last summer were ecstatic over a promise of equitable state financing in a revampe… Read more >>

Lanphier girls claim first regional basketball title since 2006 Lanphier High School entered the Class 3A Lanphier Regional at 13-13 and as the No. 7 seed in the Lincoln Sub-Sectional … Read more >>

Restaurant review: Ritz's Address: 700 W. Jefferson St. (The original Ritz's Lil' Fryer is at 2148 N. Grand Ave. East)Phone number: 523-7681 (carr… Read more >>

Another new case of Legionnaires' disease reported in Quincy Another case of Legionnaires' disease has been reported at the Illinois Veterans' Home in Quincy. It's the third new cas… Read more >>

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