Grab those little ghouls and goblins and have a wild time wandering through the zoo’s spectacularly spooky Halloween scenes for some safe trick-or-treating, festive fun and Halloween magic. Costumes ...

As we slide into the last full weekend of October, the fests are fading, the outdoor stages are dwindling and next week we run smack dab into November. That means it’s close to the end of the season ...

Chicago-based nonprofit Envision Unlimited will be hosting a grand opening for its Springfield community mental health center, at 1306 S. Sixth St., Oct. 30. Services offered are geared toward people ...

I was at lunch in Springfield when a close friend called from one of the suburbs of Chicago. He said, “This area has been invaded; I cannot go outside my house for fear of being taken away. They (ICE) ...

Little Shop of Horrors is a 90-miniute, sci-fi musical-comedy skillfully co-directed by Ginny Racette and Joe-Michael Jackson that transports you to a graphic novel, B-movie version of Skid Row – the ...

Care for the poor is both “the burning heart of the Church’s mission” and the heart of Pope Leo’s first message to the ...

Glenna Marie Cheffy, 62, of Springfield, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, at Springfield Memorial Hospital, ...

Nearly 2 million people in Illinois could lose federal food benefits ahead of Thanksgiving if Congress can’t agree on a ...

People in Illinois who buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace are likely to see big increases in ...

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights held a Statehouse lobby day last week to push its far-reaching veto ...

City, Water, Light and Power will present a grant-funded plan to the Committee of the Whole on Oct. 14 detailing the proposal ...

Yes, it may all come down to the video. But how the 12 members of Sean Grayson’s upcoming jury interpret police body-worn ...