City Water, Light and Power saw its highest electricity demand in two years last week, according to spokeswoman Amber Sabin. The load reached 393 megawatt hours. That is still within [...]

Since 2000, rents have risen and the number of renters who need low-priced housing has increased. Nationwide, the market provides only 21 adequate, affordable, and available (AAA) units for every [...]

In recent years, communities across the United States have approved ballot initiatives to levy a tax to support public transit. Fortunately, in many ways, Illinois is ahead on public transit. The [...]

Many of Springfield’s wealthier residents and its businesses have been migrating to the city’s outer edges for decades. This, coupled with the retrenchment of government, once Springfield’s life-blood, has resulted [...]

A city that prides itself as being “Always Legendary” should care deeply about its future. On June 16, 1858, Springfield’s beloved Abraham Lincoln famously said, “A house divided against itself [...]

Springfield is at a crossroad. Since 1960, Springfield has seen its geographic size increase by nearly 200 percent. However, the population has only increased from 85,000 to just shy of [...]