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Can the WPBL be a long term success? Yes – if people are patient, experts say (opens the original)
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Since Aug.1, the Women’s Pro Baseball League has been playing its inaugural season in Springfield. It’s the fifth league of its kind in U.S. history. Its players hope there is no need for a sixth. “We want to make this thing last forever and ever,” L.A. Queens captain Ashton Lansdell said. “We want this to become the MLB of women’s baseball.” Across the history of professional sports, leagues have come and gone in every game conceivable. Setting one up is no guarantee of its continued existence.
2026 one of Illinois’ busiest severe weather years on record, state climatologist says (opens the original)
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If you think Illinois has had a busy year for severe weather, you’re not alone — State Climatologist Trent Ford is right there with you. Ford said 2026 has been one of, if not the, busiest years on record for severe weather in Illinois. He said that the five National Weather Service bureaus covering the state have issued more than 1,300 thunderstorm and tornado warnings as of August. Within the past week alone, severe storms left Bloomington-Normal flooded and knocked out power for thousands of
Nearly 120 years after the Springfield Race Riot, historians say there are still lessons to be learned (opens the original)
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On Aug. 14, 1908, Springfield’s racial tensions exploded. A mob of about 5,000 white people gathered outside the county jail that evening. The mob was seeking to lynch two Black men held inside, one accused of raping a white woman, the other of murdering a white man. Fearing potential violence, the sheriff secretly moved the two men outside of the city. When the mob found this out, destruction followed. Over the next 48 hours, the mob moved into the city’s Black neighborhoods, destroying homes,
Diocese of Springfield sued over sex abuse allegations involving late priest (opens the original)
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The Diocese of Springfield is being sued for allegedly enabling and hiding sexual abuse by a late priest. The suit accuses Father John O’Connell of sexually abusing an altar boy and student at St. Mary Catholic School and Parish in Taylorville. The abuse was alleged to have happened several times between 1991 and 1994. The suit further alleges that the diocese never identified O’Connell as a priest facing child sexual abuse allegations and did not put in safeguards to prevent such abuse, includi
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