Springfield
A city in Sangamon County, Illinois — population 113,671 as of 2020.
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Nonprofit work can teach what your job can’t
When professionals think about career development, the instinct is to look inward: new certifications, stretch assignments, promotions or leadership programs. Growth is something we expect to find within the walls of our organizations. But some of the most valuable professional…
Community Groups & Organizations
From me to you, 100% true
Sprightly co-directed by Jasmine French and Reggie Guyton for Springfield Theatre Centre, Seussical Jr. is a kinetic, family-friendly mash-up of Dr. Seuss’s popular rhymes and tales. Brought to life by a 40-member cast of children age 5 to 17 from all across central Illinois,…
Creatives & Arts
Singing is for everyone
The Springfield Children’s Choir made its debut with an Oct. 1 ribbon cutting ceremony that featured city officials and the key members who developed the choir. The choir includes youth from second through fifth grade and provides an opportunity for children on the east side of…
Creatives & ArtsAmbition of Digger dwarfs competition It would be easy to dismiss Tom Cruise’s latest as Oscar bait – and let’s be honest, it is – but there’s much more at play in Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Digger. Brilliant and daring, this instant classic takes no prisoners in going after myriad…
Creatives & Arts
Send in the clowns
Eleven months of the year, Robert Quance lives a 9-to-5 life working behind the camera as a news assignment editor for WICS NewsChannel 20 in Springfield. Every October, though, Quance takes all his unused sick and personal time, dons grease paint, puts on a bulbous red nose and…
Creatives & Arts
Down the gardened path
Imagine pedaling happily along a paved path where murals and stand-alone art works distract you from the shabbiness or outright ugliness of Springfield’s backsides, passing frolicking children and couples strolling hand in hand thinking how lucky they are to be living in a city…
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Springfield by the numbers
- Area
- 61.16 sq mi (158.41 km²), 6.33 sq mi water
- Median age
- 41
- Households
- 51,040
- Persons per household
- 2.2
- Median household income
- $66,064
- Median house value
- $162,100
- Office
- DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF BUDGET AND MGMT.
- Address
- 300 S 7TH ST, SPRINGFIELD, IL 62701