Higher-than-average levels of asthma and lead in Springfield and Sangamon County must be addressed as part of a community wide effort to improve housing for low-income residents, especially children. Read [...]
We’ve all got one. That particularly awful intersection in your neighborhood that you can’t avoid passing through every single day.
Stereotypes and prejudice may persist, even despite the socioeconomic attainments of minority groups.
Mayors weigh in: America’s cities have been staging a comeback in recent years, with many downtown areas attracting a new wave of educated Millennials. With this influx of residents comes a demand for [...]
The Sangamon Mass Transit District will be holding a series of eight public meetings in February to get input from riders on a new route system planned to go into [...]
This week, the Bipartisan Policy Center will release a report summarizing research linking affordable housing, the majority of which is financed through LIHTC, to improvements in health behaviors and outcomes. [...]
The new six-mile extension of the Sangamon Valley Trail north of Stuart Park will officially open to the public Thursday. For area cyclists and joggers, that means the length of [...]
Three miles from home, cyclist Patty Brummet paced herself. This training ride was all about building endurance for a trek across the U.S. she'd planned. Just ahead, a driver in [...]
Forty percent of the food in the United States is never eaten. But at the same time, one in eight Americans struggles to put enough food on the table.
Springfield and Sangamon County must rethink economic development and job creation to reverse years of slowing tax revenues, stagnant population growth and traditional reliance on state government, say local supporters [...]