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By WMAY Newsroom (Google Maps) It appears the effort to extend a tax increment financing district in Springfield may have to wait until the fall. The city needs a signoff from Capital Township before state lawmakers will approve extending the Enos Park TIF. But as of Sunday night, that letter still had not arrived, making it unlikely the extension can happen before the legislature’s fall veto session. Township officials have said they want more transparency from the city before agreeing to the extension.

"Why are there caterpillars in your lunchbox?" my father asked my elementary school-aged self. What is your first memory of butterflies? When you think of butterflies, do you picture a monarch? How would you feel knowing there are 90% fewer monarchs now than there were in the 1990s? Unfortunately, this is true, and in December 2020 they became a candidate under the Endangered Species Act, meaning monarchs meet the definition of an endangered species, ("listing...is warranted") but they are not currently being protected. Each monarch weighs as little as a paperclip. It takes four or five...

Some Springfield aldermen are still determined to hold Mayor Jim Langfelder financially accountable and intend to bring back an ordinance next Tuesday that would lower the office of the mayor's spending power. Although it was not addressed at Tuesday's Committee of the Whole, the full city council is set to address the ordinance, which would reduce what the mayor could authorize spending-wise without council approval from $50,000 to $10,000, at next week's full council meeting. There is also consternation over Langfelder's approval of a $47,000 expense for a building used for the Springfiel...

Bally Vaughn Back in the day, Bally Vaughn, an apartment complex on Washington Street, was the place to be. "It was one of the nicer apartment complexes in town," recalls former Ward 8 Ald. Kris Theilen. "When I got out of college in 1995, Bally Vaughn was right up there with Chatham Hills and other apartments that young people wanted to live in." No more. Built in the 1960s, Bally Vaughn since has been marked by crime, loud parties, complaints to police and chain-link fence, which went up after the complex shut down seven years ago. Vacant ever since, Bally Vaughn w...

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