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Mixtape: Feeling lucky: ‘Second Tongue’ is the new albu...

By Jennifer Levesque For the Valley Advocate Local musician Noam Schatz has been...

Block and roll: Roller Derby, the ‘sport for misfits,’ ...

By Hannah Bevis For the Valley Advocate The floor of Interskate 91 South is ofte...

Editors note 4/24/25

With spring and Easter come flowers and signs of hope. Harvard sues…

Released from prison with nowhere to go

Home for Good advocates stable housing for 20,000 released each year ...

Letters to the editor 4/24/25

We welcome letters…

Change of mind

When I was teaching at Kent State, we ate at a dorm: I thought it would improv...

A better way to treat juvenile offenders

The U.S. views child repeat offenders as the problem. Ireland sees the sy...

A bill to boost beer breweries

Owner of Engrained hopes to sell his craft beer at Scheels Sports Park, b...

Community comes together for United Way’s Spring Day of...

Last week, more than 200 volunteers rolled up their sleeves and made a bi...

U.S. Attorney’s office seeing little success in public ...

Federal jury deadlocks on all charges against Sen. Emil Jones III ...

Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton announces U.S. Senat...

Stratton first Democrat to announce intention to fill retiring Sen. Dick ...

Accountant 2 an unnecessary sequel, Sinners gets bogged...

Accountant 2 unsure of its purpose or point …

Love poem by my mother

Love poem by my mother My parents were married on May 3rd, 1924…

25-year solar contract, assisted living fees and Wyndha...

Springfield council paused to honor the lives lost in Chatham, then got right to...

Driver of deadly crash at after-school camp is a former...

Four children were killed and six injured, with one in critical condition...

Illinois veterans, VA employees rally to protest expect...

Veterans fear deteriorating care as facilities begin layoffs, workers see...