In the 201-year history of Springfield, the city has been home to a future U.S. president, the founder of the Post cereal company, the president of Sears, three U.S. senators, three state governors ...

Illuminating local history and celebrating unsung heroes, the Springfield-Greene County African-American Heritage Trail is preparing to grow. Eight markers on trail are in place already. In 2018, the ...

History was made in Springfield on Monday after the city swore in its first all-minority elected school committee in its ...

Springfield will pay nearly 15 million dollars to victims of alleged sexual abuse at a middle school. This will be the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Springfield has been around since the early 1800s, and many significant events have occurred over the last 200 years. 1831 Joseph Rountree and family and Sidney S. Ingram, his ...

A Black activist of Springfield’s past has greeted people coming downtown since last fall, and it serves as just one example of ongoing efforts to tell the stories and remember Black leaders of the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Springfield has been around since the early 1800s, and many significant events have occurred over the last 200 years. 1870 The Mansfield Opera House at 313-315 South Street was ...

The Land of Lincoln is rich in history and offers a plethora of things to do. Springfield, Illinois, is where former president Abraham Lincoln called home from 1844–1861, some of his final years ...

With the weather turning to rain and the footing not conducive to walking with stilts, the colorful and extremely tall artists tip-toed into the Lyman and Merrie Woods Museum of Springfield History to ...

What does "home" mean to you? To strike up conversations about housing types, what "home" feels like, who has access to housing and what the history of housing in Springfield has looked like since ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD – Springfield Hockey Heritage Society’s “Hockeyday in Springfield” is slated for Saturday, August 5, at the Eastern States Exposition. “Hockeyday” is an annual celebration of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - A large, public mural, is being installed at the new Springfield-Sangamon County Transportation Hub on 11th Street in downtown Springfield. The mural titled “Corridor in ...