The business of spreading music success

HISO Music is one man’s dream of helping others’ dreams comes true

In a long brick building within a rented suite on Yale Boulevard in Springfield’s Harvard Park neighborhood, a quiet, yet profound revolution is underway. Here is the headquarters of HISO (pro...

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017 12:12 am

Young poets society

Three fresh voices aim to shake up Springfield’s literary scene

By Scott Faingold

Poetry is at once the most marginalized and the most accessible of art forms. Pretty much anyone with both a thought and the desire to express it can jot down a few words and head to the local c...

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017 12:11 am

Springfield’s connection to Mar-A-Lago

Heir to the Post fortune envisioned her Florida estate as a winter White House. Now it is.

By Erika Holst

What do Grape Nuts and Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate have in common? They were both created by members of the famous Post family who were born right here in Springfield.Charles W. Post was...

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 12:13 am

Measuring beyond the scale

By Dr. Craig Backs

When I first started my journey to fitness and better health almost five years ago, I knew I was overweight. I even had to admit that I was obese, based on my body mass index (BMI) being over 30...

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 12:12 am

What the scale didn’t tell me

One woman’s surprising results

By Joni Grant

I have lost 40 pounds over the past two years and I work out four to five days a week. When I stepped onto the InBody device, which measures where fat is distributed on your body, I knew in advance, o...

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 12:11 am

Yoga in the Land of Lincoln

By Scott Faingold

Over the past several years, the practice of yoga – derived from a broad range of ancient Indian mental, physical and spiritual practices – has been on the rise as a form of exercise throughout th...

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 12:10 am

Here’s what worked for me

If resolutions don’t work, try my Top 10

By Karen Witter

It’s that time of year when articles about diets, resolutions, healthy eating and exercise are rampant. Although I’ve been active and generally fit, for several years I made the same resolut...

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 12:09 am

High intensive laser therapy

Quell pain and induce healing

By Alex Camp

A new form of therapy at a local chiropractic office promises to decrease pain and speed up the recovery process. Dr. John Folkerts of Sherman Chiropractic located at 420 Crossing Drive in Sherman is...

Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017 12:11 am

Downtown. Can we talk?

Faded gem needs direction

By Bruce Rushton

Downtown Springfield lacks many things.A hardware store. A movie theater. A college. A dry cleaning shop. Modern parking meters.What it does have are things that no city wants in its urban heart. Vaca...

Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 12:12 am

Slavery in the Land of Lincoln

Illinois held slaves for more than 100 years

By Tara McClellan McAndrew

Because Illinois is a northern state and the former home of Abraham Lincoln, it isn’t typically associated with slavery. But there was slavery in Illinois for more than 100 years. Even after I...