The Gillespie District 7 Board of Education voted last week to hire Gillespie High School Principal R.

Illinois Gov.

An area legislator wants to hold China accountable for its actions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

As she sat Wednesday on the covered deck at the 4-Way Saloon in Sidell, overlooking the town grain elevator, Leslie Powell made her way down the list of tasks she had scribbled on her yellow notepad.

After a three-month hiatus, the city's popular "no sticker" yard waste and leaf collection program returns Monday.

Normally, Tom Gillespie said, his grandson Owen, 10, and Owen's stepbrother, Josiah Boyd, 5, would be enjoying the bounce houses and carnival games at South Side Christian Church's annual Easter Eggcitement.

While the masses hunt for toilet paper, Caroline Gregory and other people with diabetes are on a different mission: scouring stores for the rubbing alcohol or alcohol swabs needed to manage their disease.

The Springfield Fire Department reported a small wood fire on the second floor of a building in the 1100 block of South Grand Avenue East Sunday afternoon.

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