The following is an excerpt of a story published by The State Journal-Register on May 13, 2023.

"For the vast majority of the 700-plus students graduating from the University of Illinois Springfield Saturday, they spent much of their time at the Springfield campus learning the skills that they need to succeed in their careers and building the kind of lifelong relationships that only college could provide.

The following story was published by the Illinois Times on May 11, 2023.

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.