The Illinois State Capitol's 361-foot-tall outer dome is leaking, and it could cost up to $5 million to fix—more than the building's cost of construction.

The Illinois Secretary of State's office is in charge of the Capitol building. Office project manager Harl Ray says concrete pieces about the size of marbles were seen between the Capitol's inner ...

The inner dome of the rotunda at the Illinois state Capitol in Springfield. Although parts of the Capitol have undergone renovations, the rotunda will not be part of the building’s updates.

The same structural issue that kept workers from hanging some 1,300 lights from the state Capitol dome in 2019 and again last year has not been resolved, a Secretary of ...

Illinois' budget impasse will replace the Grinch when it comes to decorating the state Capitol dome this year. The Illinois Secretary of State's office, which maintains the Capitol building, ...

Amid the political firestorm over the renovation of the Illinois State Capitol, it is worth remembering the criticism that was visited upon the reconstruction of the U.S. Capitol’s dome durin… ...

The lights were first hung on the dome in 1924, but it didn't become more of an annual tradition until the 1960s. When lit up, the lights can be seen from about 20 miles away, The State Journal ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – State officials are ordering a study of the Illinois Capitol dome after workers found small pieces of concrete fell from the inner portion of the outer dome. The (Springfield ...