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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Democrats in the Illinois House on Thursday unveiled a proposal to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and eliminate the ability for most people under 21 to obtain a gun permit in the state.

The new historic marker stands outside the Old State Capitol, where then Sen. Barack Obama launched his presidential bid on a brutally cold February day in 2007 —but unlike Obama, Pritzker and the others who unveiled the marker on Wednesday made their remarks indoors.

Back in 1992, William Weidner, then president of Hollywood Casino of Aurora Inc., set out to Springfield to kill then-Mayor Richard M. Daley’s plans for a $2 billion “mega-casino” in downtown Chicago.

When Richie Neal was mayor of Springfield, in Western Massachusetts, in the 1980s, Donald Trump was a lying Manhattan real estate promoter who routinely cheated those who were foolish enough to do business with him. God knows what Trump’s tax returns looked like, but those suspect documents were a matter…

Michael Conley Loyd, 30, from Missouri, stormed into a Bank of America branch in Springfield in July, 2021, stole $754 and quickly escaped in a stolen black pickup truck

The decision to host the AFLW grand final between Brisbane and Melbourne at the Lions' new training facility in Springfield described as limiting growth and access to the game.

The Brisbane Lions receive permission to host the AFLW grand final at the club's new training base in Springfield.

Brisbane's newly-built Springfield headquarters will be the venue for the AFLW grand final if the Lions earn the right to host it.

“We have to broaden that appeal because we’re getting heavily outspent in all our races all across the state,” new state Senate Minority Leader John Curran said.