Crimestoppers Most Wanted
By Gary Scott on October 17, 2025 at 10:46am
Crimestoppers has identified a couple of men in the area as the most wanted this week. One is Fred Kay. He is 49 and a white male weighing 194 pounds, and standing 6 foot 2. Kay has black brush cut hair, and brown eyes. His last known address is 3001 South Hoover in Springfield. Kay […]
Jacksonville Memorial Hospital 5-10K Run
By Gary Scott on October 17, 2025 at 6:51am
Jacksonville Memorial Hospital’s annual 5 and 10 K run will step off at 8 tomorrow morning. Race organizer Kevin Eckhoff says there is still time to register either today, or the day of the race tomorrow. Eckhoff says proceeds go to the United Way. He says Ryne Turke is taking donations as he is running […]
Skull Found in Sangamon County
By Gary Scott on October 17, 2025 at 6:46am
Sangamon County authorities are trying to tie in a skull found in Springfield with the identity of a missing person. Authorities say a group of children playing in a dry creek bed in the Lake Pointe Subdivision in Springfield discovered the skull September 20th. It was found in the 62-hundred block of Winterberry Lane around […]
Crisis Center Foundation Still in Building Limbo
By Gary Scott on October 17, 2025 at 6:43am
The Crisis Center Foundation and Educational Day Care Center remain in a state of limbo at the former Jacksonville Developmental Center grounds. Both agencies are on pins and needles as the state works out funding for the razing of the buildings, and decide what to do with the property. Dona Leonard of the Crisis Center […]
Pumpkin Festival Headed indoors
By Gary Scott on October 17, 2025 at 6:39am
It looks like tomorrow’s Pumpkin Festival is headed indoors. Rain chances for Saturday have surpassed 90 percent for the event, originally pegged for the square downtown. Judy Tighe of Jacksonville Main Street says it appears the event will be moved indoors at the Morgan county fairgrounds. She says the event will be in the pavilion […]
Three-vehicle crash on West Morton sends one to hospital
By Benjamin Cox on October 17, 2025 at 4:55am
A motorcyclist was sent to an area hospital after a three-vehicle chain reaction crash on West Morton on Thursday night. According to a Jacksonville police report, a vehicle driven by Bethany M. Doolin, 37, of Winchester was attempting to exit the drive of a private business in the 1600 block of West Morton Avenue and […]
JSD 117 Building Projects 100% Paid for with Sales Tax Revenue, Not Property Tax
By Seth Gabriel on October 16, 2025 at 12:28pm
Jacksonville School District 117 has seen an increase in sales tax revenue as the district continues to make good on a promise to the community to use that revenue for building improvements, including the new Murrayville-Woodson school. At the district board meeting Wednesday night, School superintendent Steve Ptacek put a heavy emphasis on the fact […]
Illinois FOP Calls for Removal of IDOC Director After Multiple Reports of Violence
By Seth Gabriel on October 15, 2025 at 12:49pm
The Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Corrections Lodge 263 is calling for the removal of Illinois Department of Corrections Director Latoya Hughes after accounts of violence and murder within the IDOC turned out to be true. FOP Corrections Lodge President Scot Ward says the acting director has lost control of her department and that proper […]
Jacksonville Council Talks Homelessness
By Gary Scott on October 15, 2025 at 11:59am
The Jacksonville city council last night spent the most time talking about an item that wasn’t on the agenda last night…homelessness. One could make the argument that it is a problem that has solution. Alderwoman Alison Rubin de Celis opened the discussion once the council finished the agenda by asking about the ordinance for people […]
Another Solar Field at city’s edge
By Gary Scott on October 15, 2025 at 11:53am
Jacksonville aldermen learned about another solar field planned just east of the city limits last night. The solar field would be a project of NexAmp, based out of New York with offices in Chicago. Jack Curry says the proposed site is on the east side of Black’s Lane just south of the railroad tracks. The […]
