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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Mayor Langfelder to propose 4% natural gas tax

Mayor Jim Langfelder has changed course and will soon propose a 4 percent natural gas tax to help with pension payments,…

Aldermen locked out of the municipal building. The mayor said it wasn't personal.

After an explosive - or as Mayor Jim Langfelder called it, "spirited" - debate during Tuesday's Committee of the Whole m…

2016 report put Quincy veterans' home plumbing fix at $8M

Engineers told Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration 18 months ago that replacing problematic plumbing at a veterans' home …

Former Lanphier player among the latest Legionnaires' cases in Quincy

A former Lanphier High School basketball standout who went on to serve in the Air Force and be named to the Springfield …

Inmates who applauded alleged Chicago cop killer may face reprisals

CHICAGO - Five Cook County Jail inmates who applauded as the man charged with the fatal shooting of a Chicago police com…

CHAMPAIGN - Trey Hild and Zach Haley will meet one more time, and one of them will be a state champion for the first tim…

Can middle-class candidate Daniel Biss defeat millionaires in Illinois?

CHICAGO - In an Illinois governor race that includes a couple millionaires and a billionaire, Daniel Biss likes to tell …

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception school to close

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception will close its parish school at the end of this school year, the Diocese of S…

Glenwood senior starts nonprofit to help poor Indian students improve vision

CHATHAM - If he takes his glasses off, Ishan Agarwall may as well have a blindfold on."I can't read anything 2 feet away…

This is how Springfield will market itself for Illinois' 200th birthday

With Illinois' 200th birthday happening this year, Springfield wants all eyes on it.HIP Advertising, a local agency, pre…

Some local school districts were already planning active-shooter drills before Florida incident

Illinois law requires school districts to conduct safety drills to be prepared in the case of a shooting, like the one i…

Superintendents worried about Rauner's pension shift proposal

Public school administrators who just last summer were ecstatic over a promise of equitable state financing in a revampe…

Lanphier girls claim first regional basketball title since 2006

Lanphier High School entered the Class 3A Lanphier Regional at 13-13 and as the No. 7 seed in the Lincoln Sub-Sectional …

Restaurant review: Ritz's

Address: 700 W. Jefferson St. (The original Ritz's Lil' Fryer is at 2148 N. Grand Ave. East)Phone number: 523-7681 (carr…

Another new case of Legionnaires' disease reported in Quincy

Another case of Legionnaires' disease has been reported at the Illinois Veterans' Home in Quincy. It's the third new cas…

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