This is a recent collaboration with Stella Cole: Springfield girl, talented young actress, college-bound teenager, and as sweet in manner as her smile implies.
Investigative reporter, covers politics, actor, friend and willing subject.
Everything is going to be okay, my neighbor is Batman.
Kaylee Sims is a 2017 Top Teen finalist.
Spring's early blooming ornamentals such redbud, magnolia, cherry and pink flowering crab, as well as the ground cover, purple henbit, had me seeing red.
"I know it’s an honor, and I know there are many, many, many veterans who deserve that honor. It’s a privilege,” says Ogden Munroe, a Navy veteran of the Korean War who will be on the season's first Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.
Emma Wilson and Dave Heinzel’s latest collaboration is the short film “Sarah” about a 19-year-old coping with an unremarkable life in her small Midwestern hometown.
The Springfield artists previously worked together on “The Studio Show,” a YouTube program that featured interviews with local artists, along with sketch comedy and short films.
Aaron Pinkston-El, right, will draw on nearly 40 years in prison for his role in “A Day in Stateville,” an inmate-written performance about the infamous state penitentiary near Joliet. Reginald Dale, left, a former inmate himself and founder of Citizens United for Justice and Order, organized Sunday’s performance, which will be held at Ms. D’s Kitchen.
The bridge that carries Illinois 104 over the Illinois River at Meredosia opened in 1936. Its presence on Main Street in the middle of the business district gives the river community a unique character. That will change when a new $75.1 million bridge under construction opens next summer and the old bridge is demolished.
Edgar Curtis is president and CEO of Memorial Health System and the newly installed chairman of the board of trustees for the Illinois Health and Hospital Association.
John Phillipich was just 18 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and he remembers having to pester his father for permission to enlist. On the 75th anniversary of the attack of Pearl Harbor, he recalled his experience in the Navy.
Micah Bartlett, left, is chairman of the Illinois Bankers Association and Tom Marantz holds the same title with the Community Bankers Association of Illinois. The two also are across the town neighbors, Bartlett with Town and Country Bank and Marantz with Bank of Springfield.
Sangamon County residents who participated in the democracy today and cast a vote for their candidate.
The legacy of Harry "Skee" Marshall, a Springfield resident and the first African-American U.S. Marshall in the Central District of Illinois, was celebrated during a ceremony naming Jackson Street as Harry Marshall Way. Marshall's wife, Iner, center, and her granddaughter, Tiffany Marshall, left, and great grandson, Cobi Jones, and several other family members were present for the event at the corner of Jackson and McCreery streets.
Former Springfield police officer Dave Ballance searches for answers to what happened to a 5-month-old boy who was shot in the head one night in 1999 while he was on patrol.
Marcella Kincaid. who was convicted of a felony in 1991, was granted clemency recently by Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and her record could soon be clear. “I don’t know how my name found its way on the governor’s desk, but it’s a blessing,” Kincaid said.
Steve Frank is chief of the volunteer New Berlin Island Grove fire department, photographed at the scene of a field fire.
