Chad Pregracke is the founder and president of Living Lands and Waters, a nonprofit organization dedicated to cleaning up ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had been hired by a man named Denton Offutt to deliver the boat cargo to New ...

Following the police finding Roberts with a headwound, which was around noon, a Springfield man died after jumping off the Peoria Road and Sherman Boulevard bridge and into the Sangamon River ...

Kartic Bhargav (left) and Jonathan Thomson (right) play Saarathi and Nathanael Ambrose, the two leads in "Dark Soul River." The cast and crew of "Dark Soul River" prepare to shoot a scene in the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- There was a new development Thursday in the Sonya Massey case. A judge will hear arguments to move the murder trial of a former sheriff's deputy to a different county.

(WICS) — The Sangamon County Coroner, Jim Allmon, confirmed the identity of the 61-year-old man recovered from the Sangamon River on March 17, 2025, as Christopher Roberts of Springfield. RELATED: Man ...