Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Feb. 26, during the centennial of Black History Month, Springfield's African-American Heritage Trail unveiled and dedicated its ...

Springfield's first commercial brewery, Springfield Brewery, was established by English immigrant James Busher in 1840. The ...

Brinkerhoff was a teacher, a Republican politician, an ally of Abraham Lincoln and an educated lawyer who came to Springfield ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Springfield has been around since the early 1800s, and many significant events have occurred over the last 200 years. 1870 The Mansfield Opera House at 313-315 South Street was ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Springfield has been around since the early 1800s, and many significant events have occurred over the last 200 years. Here’s a timeline of significant events that have happened in ...

A Black activist of Springfield’s past has greeted people coming downtown since last fall, and it serves as just one example of ongoing efforts to tell the stories and remember Black leaders of the ...

Illuminating local history and celebrating unsung heroes, the Springfield-Greene County African-American Heritage Trail is preparing to grow. Eight markers on trail are in place already. In 2018, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 201-year history of Springfield, the city has been home to a future U.S. president, the founder of the Post cereal company, ...

In the 1930s, more than 200,000 people traveled Route 66 to escape drought, debt and hardship. A century later, travelers follow the same highway for strikingly different reasons: nostalgia, history ...

Sankofa is an African word which held deep meaning for the late LuJuana Hood. As she interpreted it, the word carried a message, “You must know your history to develop a better future.” These words ...

What does "home" mean to you? To strike up conversations about housing types, what "home" feels like, who has access to housing and what the history of housing in Springfield has looked like since ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will present a series of free history walks and porch talks at Springfield historic sites this summer. “Walk, Hike and Bike History” returns with ...