Dean Olsen

Plans for CyrusOne's $500 million data center in Sangamon County are moving forward, with construction expected to begin this summer, after approval two months ago in a County Board vote that crossed party lines.

It may not have been the full-throated apology critics wanted, but a top official from Springfield Municipal Opera says mistakes were made in the handling of sexual harassment complaints against a man ultimately banned from participation in the organization.

A former emergency medical technician accused in potentially the nation's first murder case against a first responder received the lightest possible sentence – probation and no prison time – on June 23 after pleading guilty to a lesser charge.

Facing strong opposition to a proposed $6 billion data center near Taylorville, a founder of Eagle Rock Partners told the Christian County Board he wouldn't want to live next door to the center his firm wants to build.

LifeStar Ambulance Service. Inc. wants to temporarily drop its lawsuit against Springfield Memorial Hospital to gather proof of what LifeStar considers the hospital's bias against the company.

Logan County officials are on track to consider and potentially vote on land-use applications for a $5 billion data center near Latham as soon as August after the local state's attorney declared invalid a 12-month moratorium that the County Board approved in May.

A permanent amphitheater for free Levitt AMP Springfield Music Series concerts and other community events would be built on the downtown Y block, and the state would acquire the two-acre property as part of a $4 million, state-funded development plan for a public park that City Council members may consider for approval this month.

A Springfield City Council member questioned why the city would consider giving away the Y block without more than a $4 million commitment from state officials to construct a permanent outdoor amphitheater ringed by a public park.

Hut 8 Corp. could avoid scrutiny from the Logan County Board if it convinces Latham Village Board members to annex the proposed site of the company's planned 500-megawatt data center – two miles west of the village – and thus take control over the future of the $5 billion project.

Through her sobs, the mother of Earl Moore Jr. told a Sangamon County judge how the death of her 35-year-old son at the hands of two ambulance company workers in 2022 has affected their immediate and extended family.