About 41,261 Metro Springfield residents – or about 18.1 percent of the region’s population – were on food stamp rolls in January 2017, according to a Sangamon Sun analysis of 66 Illinois welfare offices.
Sen. William "Sam" McCann (R-Plainview) called for the resignation of Illinois Department of Public Health Director Nirav Shah earlier this week during a Senate-House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing regarding the Legionnaires disease outbreak at the Quincy Veterans Home.
In the last election, 55 assessors in 36 counties, including one in Logan County and three in Sangamon County, were illegally placed on the ballot and elected, according to the Edgar County Watchdogs.