Big money

Foundation raised millions but still short

The nonprofit foundation that says it might have to sell artifacts related to Abraham Lincoln has taken in more than $40 million since 2007, when the group borrowed $23 million to purchase relic...

Thursday, May 17, 2018 12:05 am

Digging the state out of the hole it’s in

By Scott Faingold

On Thursday, May 10, at the Rendezvous Room in the Wyndham Springfield City Centre, NPR Illinois and Illinois Issues presented the first in their most recent series of traveling forums happening...

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 10:08 am

Brother, can you spare an Abe?

ALPLM foundation goes GoFundMe

By Bruce Rushton

How desperate is the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, which owes nearly $10 million for Lincoln artifacts?Check out the foundation’s GoFundMe.com campaign, set up after quiet efforts...

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 10:01 am

Selling Lincoln

ALPLM foundation seeks bailout

By Bruce Rushton

Shortly after the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation closed a 2007 deal to buy a trove of Lincoln artifacts for $23 million, the nonprofit foundation signed an agreement with the st...

Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:05 am

Celebrating three decades, Skank Skates needs help

By Scott Faingold

George Sinclair started building skateboard ramps as a bored Petersburg teenager in the 1970s. At 16, the city of Petersburg paid him $300 to build a 10-foot half-pipe for a contest at a citywid...

Thursday, May 3, 2018 12:08 am

State puts pressure on Schaller

Suspends mortgage broker’s license

By Bruce Rushton

State allegations against a Springfield mortgage broker mirror accusations contained in a lawsuit filed by a Petersburg man who says that he was cheated out of his home.The Illinois Department of Fina...

Thursday, May 3, 2018 12:07 am

Finally

Lincoln papers posted by ALPLM

By Bruce Rushton

The first installment of documents put online by the Papers of Abraham Lincoln project is but a sliver of things to come. But what a sliver it is.It is easy to spend more time than planned browsing th...

Thursday, April 26, 2018 12:06 am

#Swee Too

Prof quits after years of complaints

By Bruce Rushton

Lincoln Land Community College kept a professor on the payroll for nearly two decades after students first complained about graphic sexual remarks and unwelcome advances.Former anthropology and...

Thursday, April 26, 2018 12:05 am

Imagination reaches for the divine

Liturgical Arts Festival returns April 27-May 5

By Scott Faingold

Launched in 1996 and running alternate years since, this year’s Liturgical Arts Festival of Springfield is set to present several days of events at multiple venues around town, all centered ar...

Thursday, April 19, 2018 12:50 am

Sheriff hires supporter's relative

Former Sen. Bomke's son to start Monday

By Bruce Rushton

Sangamon County sheriff Wes Barr has hired the son of former state Sen. Larry Bomke, a Republican who contributed to the sheriff’s 2014 election campaign and endorsed him in media advertise...