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By: Dean Olsen, Michelle Ownbey
A change in developers hoping to build Lincoln Land Energy Center near Pawnee in Sangamon County has meant more uncertainty for a project in Christian County – a proposed $6 billion data center.
The 30-story Wyndham Springfield City Centre, closed since March 2025 by water damage that local police and the FBI were investigating as an alleged act of vandalism, is going up for sale as part of bankruptcy proceedings.
A revamped “transparency” section on the Springfield Police Department website shows this year's stunningly low rate of shootings as well as familiar clusters of violent crime and traffic stops on the economically disadvantaged east side.
Eagle Rock Partners announced Aug. 12 that it will abandon its quest to build a $6 billion data center in Christian County.
A former Springfield City Council candidate who was sentenced to two years of probation for child endangerment after the 2024 drowning death of a 7-year-old foster child in his care could be headed to prison after being charged with methamphetamine possession.
Local real estate investor Chris Stone has acquired the former PNC Bank building on the Old State Capitol Plaza downtown.
Sean Grayson, the white former sheriff's deputy whose shots at Sonya Massey inside the Black single mother's Woodside Township home two years ago resulted in his second-degree murder conviction and an ongoing racial reckoning in Sangamon County, died about noon Aug. 23.
Unwilling to wait on the Illinois General Assembly, the Sangamon County Board plans to vote as soon as Sept. 1 to impose a new 3% hotel tax that would set in motion a $60 million expansion of the BOS Center.
Hotel taxes will rise 3% one month from now to pay for a $60 million expansion of Springfield's publicly owned convention center after a 20-5 vote by the Sangamon County Board on Sept. 1.
A Springfield Fire Department ambulance that specializes in helping Sangamon County residents during substance-abuse and mental health crises went into service Sept. 8.
