The following story was published by The State Journal-Register on May 11, 2023.

"LaNise Kirk has come to terms with the enemy.

In April 2022, Kirk, a 46-year-old mother of three from Roodhouse and a graduate student at the University of Illinois Springfield, learned that a rare form of cancer she had contracted four years earlier had returned.

This time, doctors told her it was metastatic and Stage 4.

They gave her a year or less to live.

The following story was published by The State Journal-Register on May 10, 2023.

"University of Illinois Springfield softball coach Shannon Guthrie appreciates local talent.

They can draw a good crowd to be sure, but it’s more imperative that they produce.

Chatham Glenwood’s Carolyn Franke, Williamsville’s Danielle Dennis and Rochester’s Reagan Miles certainly hold their own in the cauldron of NCAA Division II. They particularly form a strong nucleus in the infield: Franke at first base, Dennis at second and Miles as the starting pitcher.

The following story was published by the Chicago Sun-Times on May 8, 2023.

"Small and mid-sized Illinois cities have surpassed Chicago’s gun homicide rate in recent years, mirroring a national trend, a new analysis of city-level firearm violence data found.

Magic Wade, a political science professor at the University of Illinois Springfield, studied firearm homicide and injury data from the Gun Violence Archive for small, mid-size and large cities nationwide from 2015 to 2021.

NPR Illinois' Community Voices published this story on May 5, 2023.

"UIS computer science professor and director of the new Orion Lab Joshua Smith sat down with Community Voices to explain its creation, its current status, and how it is designed to allow accessibility to those who may not have access to the tools to help make their dreams a reality."

The following is an excerpt of a story published in the Illinois Times on on May 4, 2023.

"The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board has made the state the first in the nation to mandate wrongful conviction awareness and avoidance training at all seven police training academies in the state. The Illinois Innocence Project (IIP) at University of Illinois Springfield will continue to manage the training, which until now had only been offered in Champaign, and there only as an elective.