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Trucking company protests CWLP's pick for $13 million coal-hauling contract
An East St. Louis-based trucking company president protested the city of Springfield's decision to award a three-year co…
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Chicago mayor wants higher state gas tax
CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a group of suburban leaders on Tuesday called for a 20- to 30-cent-per-gallon i…
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Woman robs man outside Stevenson Drive bank
Springfield police are looking for a woman suspected of robbing a man outside of Security Bank, 2500 Stevenson Drive, la…
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Pritzker begins making plans for inauguration
Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker is making his inauguration somewhat of a family affair.The incoming governor announced Tuesday …
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U of I scientists pitch $40M carbon capture project for CWLP
A research center with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is looking for support from the Springfield City C…
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Home Help: Is your home guest-ready for the season?
Tip of the weekIs your home holiday ready?
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Sherman electoral board allows challengers to stay on ballot
There will be a race for village president and trustee seats in Sherman next spring after the village's electoral board …
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3 CS8 Questions: Terrion Murdix, Southeast flying high
Jim Ruppert is the former State Journal-Register sports editor. Each week during the season he will answer three questio…
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Landmark 'Sonrise' sign goes up for auction
It looks like sunset for the Sonrise Donut neon sign that has welcomed visitors along one of Springfield's original stre…
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'Changing the culture': Springfield High boys building more chemistry one year at a time
After years of middling to little success, the Springfield High School boys' basketball team members say they could be p…
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Someone to Know: Bill Castagno volunteers at Benld Adopt-A-Pet
The memory of the first animal that J.W. "Bill" Castagno of Thayer rescued for the no-kill, not-for-profit Benld Adopt-A…
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Access counselor: State should disclose inmate-death records
Gov. Bruce Rauner's corrections agency has refused to release public records about a prison altercation that led to the …
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Secret Service agent remembers rifle pointed at JFK during 1962 Springfield visit
One of the Secret Service agents who was with President John F. Kennedy when he visited Springfield in 1962 said he reme…
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Outgoing director of Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault reflects on 36-year career
Polly Poskin is the only executive director that the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault has ever known. That will…
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Volunteers offer relief for tornado-ravaged sections of Taylorville
TAYLORVILLE - Saturday was not Patty Wells' first foray responding to a devastating, out-of-season twister in central Il…
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Dave Kane: Terry Todt picks up early holiday gift with Carlinville shootout
CARLINVILLE - For years, Terry Todt had wanted to see a basketball shootout with high school boys and girls teams from t…
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