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By WMAY Newsroom (Kyle Hutchinson / Mid-West Family Broadcasting) The Springfield City Council has voted to trim $1.4 million from the proposed fire department budget. Alderman Chuck Redpath proposed the across-the-board reduction, noting that fire department costs have outpaced both the police and public works departments in recent years. Budget director Bill McCarty says without adjusting those trends, the city won’t be able to keep pace with those expenses in future years without draining its fund balance or having to resort to tax hikes. The firefighters union says such cuts are...

Springfield's fire chief says he will try to be "creative," but isn't sure how he will be able to implement a ...

A Springfield alderman says officials from Chicago have no business telling police how to clean up their depar...

The Springfield City Council passed an ordinance authorizing a development agreement with the Springfield Park District for improvements in parks in the Enos Park and Madison Park tax-increment financing districts during a special meeting Tuesday. The final adoption came with an amendment: The park district won't get money from the city until it makes improvements on the parks, and the money doled out will be on a project-by-project basis. The amendment further limited the park district to spending any leftover money on two parks — Comer Cox and Chamberlain — both in the Far East TIF ...

Bar, restaurant owners, employees protest outside Governor's Mansion Brenden Moore State Journal-Register Keith Loukinen has had perhaps the best view of the Illinois Governor’s Mansion of any restaurateur since opening his fine dining establishment across the street in 2017.  But on Saturday, Loukinen, in his full chef uniform, made the short walk to the front of the mansion to join about 100 bar and restaurant owners, employees and patrons to protest the mitigations put in place by Gov. JB Pritzker and enforced by Sangamon County public health officials.  The mitigations, in place since...