Logan County officials are on track to consider and potentially vote on land-use applications for a $5 billion data center ...

Babe Ruth, FDR and America at the Crossroadsby Randall Sullivan (Grove Atlantic Books, 2026). Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game will be held July 14at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia as part of ...

New local comedy venture begins Get ready, Springfield. For three Friday nights this month, the comedians of Capital City Comix will take over the upstairs stage at Arlington’s for what is billed as a ...

The only thing between dream and reality is action,” proclaims Adena Rivas, founder of the Creative Reuse Marketplace (CRM) in Springfield. “Octopolis” is the dream of Adena and her sister, Layna Joy ...

Between this week’s Fourth of July holiday and the America 250 activities taking place throughout the year, there are many ways to celebrate. This special issue looks back at historical observances of ...

Welcome to July of 2026 as our national holiday weekend celebrating Independence Day in the U.S. of A. comes in hotter than a firecracker on the Fourth of July, to borrow an appropriate phrase for the ...

When I was in high school, I would regularly hitchhike home along a seven-mile trek through Florissant, Ferguson and Jennings in north St. Louis County. On any street, I would walk to the curb, ...

Springfield employees of LifeStar Ambulance Service Inc., who gathered May 25 on the last day before the company's suspension from Springfield Memorial Hospital's EMS system took effect, included ...

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This past weekend marked a transition in the life of Temple Israel, the congregation I served for 47 years as rabbi and of which I am now the rabbi emeritus. The experience was a bittersweet one. On ...