
SJ-R.com The Festival of Trees opens this Saturday at the Orr Building, check out staff photographer T.J. Salsman's time lapse video as they set up.
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SJ-R.com After enduring hell on earth, little Tabitha Gee now thrives amid at least three blessings.
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SJ-R.com The Springfield School Board on Monday approved the $231 million plan, known as Option B, to build a new high school near Koke Mill and Hedley roads, completely rebuilding Lanphier High School and mostly rebuilding Southeast High School. The board did not determine how to pay for it.
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SJ-R.com The Springfield School Board appears to be ready to OK a $231 million plan to rebuild the city’s three public high schools but not to pay for it with a property tax increase.
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SJ-R.com Ever wonder how the lights get strung from the Capitol building? Check out the video from Photographer T.J. Salsman who climbed to the top yesterday to find out how it's done.
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The new year could be the start of a new beginning for MacArthur Boulevard.
Regional planning officials hope to have a firm under contract by the beginning of 2010 to study redevelopment of MacArthur Boulevard, specifically the stretch from South Grand Avenue to Wabash Avenue.
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SJ-R.com Designers of the newest attraction at Springfield’s newest park, Southwind, looked to the downtown of the early 1900s for their inspiration.
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SJ-R.com School board members may have to consider scaling back the plan for rebuilding the city's public schools. A proposed countywide school sales tax wouldn’t raise enough money to pay for the Springfield School District’s ambitious “Option B” proposal.
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SJ-R.com The school year is off to a rough start at Lanphier High School. There are safety concerns for the students in light of violent incidents at and near the school. That led to a special meeting Oct. 8 of parents and administrators about what can and is being done to safeguard the kids.
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SJ-R.com John Gillette was either a rogue deputy or a “squared away” cop whose way of doing business was a model for others in the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office.
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Freshman guard D.J. Richardson stands out on the poster promoting Illinois basketball. He’s the only player without a basketball.
Instead of passing, shooting, dribbling, dunking or hogging the ball, the former Peoria Central High School star sits in a defensive stance.
John Supinie: Illini can score, but Weber wants better defense - Springfield, IL - The State Journal
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It’s unclear if Illinois will start enforcing a hotly debated abortion notification law this week after all.
After decades of legal wrangling, it appeared the law requiring physicians to notify parents before their teenage daughters get an abortion would take effect Tuesday.

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