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3 Apr, 2020
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ICC promises $33 million for Springfield rail project
Additional funding needed for the Springfield Rail Improvements Project could soon be coming down the pike.
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City man arrested in domestic battery dispute

A 44-year-old Springfield man was arrested Thursday morning after discharging his firearm during a domestic disturbance.

COVID-19 deaths up to 157 in Illinois as virus spreads

The COVID-19 virus continued to spread through central Illinois as Logan and Macoupin counties reported their first cases of the disease.

 
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Downtown Wyndham agrees to house some recovering COVID-19 patients

Sangamon County has entered into a four-month lease agreement with the group that owns the Wyndham Springfield City Centre, 700 E.

Court: Brady helped get brothers loan based on ‘false statements’

   Dr. Thomas Pliura, a friend of Senate GOP Leader Bill Brady and his brothers Robert and Edward, was lied to before he and his wife loaned $1 million to Brady's brothers shortly before the 2010 election when Brady was the GOP nominee for governor, a federal bankruptcy judge said in a ruling issued this week.

 
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Potter noted for her work in family medicine, in classroom

Springfield native Dr. Beth Potter is being remembered as an innovative clinician and a highly respected medical educator.

Over 178,000 Illinoisans file unemployment claims last week, 6.6 million Americans

Illinoisans continued to flood the unemployment website and phone lines last week as the coronavirus pandemic tears through the state.

Thousands of US medical workers furloughed, laid off as routine patient visits drop during coronavirus pandemic

Dotty Orr took time off from her job as a receptionist for a primary care physician in Akron, Ohio, to get her knee replaced March 4.  Thursday, she found out she's not going back.

Trump calls some governors ‘complainers’ as he’s criticized over delivery of coronavirus supplies

WASHINGTON - Elevating a feud with some governors critical of the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump insisted Thursday his team is delivering medical supplies to states nationwide and that certain unnamed "complainers" will never be satisfied.

March state revenues spared COVID-19 impact

Illinois tax collections were largely spared the impact of the coronavirus in March, but state officials warned that the worst is yet to come.