An exciting tale is told in a new $73,000 state-funded video presentation at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. The animated production brings to life the story of Robert Smalls, an enslaved man ...

Springfield was a grand hotel town in the ’20s. It was the state capital, a tourist mecca and a “good convention town” too, meaning it offered gambling, booze, women and a police force under orders to ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of Now Playing, your weekly Illinois Times excursion into the music scene surrounding us. The month of May is definitely not a “maybe” this year, as we warm up in ...

One by one, boys walked to the front of the courtroom May 5 to receive certificates marking the completion of Sangamon County’s new youth mentoring and diversion program. Mentors stood beside them for ...

“Let kids be kids a little longer” is a motto of Wait Until 8th, an organization that encourages parents to delay giving their children smartphones until the end of eighth grade. With the advent of ...

Every summer, something quietly happens to young readers. School lets out, routines shift and before long, the books get ...

The only revenue Springfield city government might forfeit to help pay for the proposed BOS Center expansion and new hotel ...

The first Mother’s Day sermon I preached following the birth of our son Paul was a momentous occasion for me. I remember ...

Brian Galecki is the co-owner of Dumb Records. This episode begins with some rapid-fire hot takes, explores how Dumb Records ...

When customers came to Capitol Teletrack on May 2 for the Kentucky Derby, a yearly event that still packed them in at 1776 ...

The Illinois General Assembly continues to debate what to do about data centers as the artificial intelligence business keeps ...

This powerful mixed-media portrait series of first-time women voters created by artist Niki Johnson will be on display ...