Faith Coalition for the Common Good

What an incredible time at the .inc Celebration in the Park!

There’s nothing better than being in community, and we had an amazing time hosting our informational booth and connecting with so many wonderful people throughout the day. From meaningful conversations and sharing information about the work of Faith Coalition for the Common Good, to enjoying great music and celebrating together, the park was filled with energy, joy, and connection.

A special thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth, shared their stories, learned more about our work, and helped make the day so memorable. It was also wonderful to gather with FCCG leaders, members, and supporters as we celebrated freedom, culture, and the strength that comes from bringing people together.

Days like these remind us that when neighbors, families, organizations, and community leaders come together, we build the relationships and collective power needed to create lasting change.

TogetherWeRise BuildingStrongerCommunities FCCG

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UPDATE SAT 11:15 AM: Crews have restored power to a number of additional outage areas. There are currently 514 customers without power across approximately 22 locations.

Largest Remaining Outages:
The following locations represent the largest remaining outage areas where crews are currently working or have assigned tickets. This list does not include all outage locations or restoration priorities. Customers can report new outages or new information to CWLP’s 24-hour Dispatch at 217-789-2121.

• 79 + 15 customers — N. Rutledge St. and N. 1st St. between Yates Avenue and W. Calhoun Avenue
• 76 customers — Marland Street and N. 7th Street between E. Sangamon Avenue and Garfield Street
• 68 + 34 customers — Fox Bridge Rd. to S. Woodward Street between E. Culver Avenue and Stevenson Drive (wire down)
• 49 customers — Glen Aire Drive, Delmar Drive, Radcliff Road and Villanova Drive area
• 36 + 14 customers — Ruth Court, Bonnie Court, Lowell Avenue and Holmes Avenue area (crossarm and wire repair)
• 36 customers — S. Bates Avenue to S. Wiggins Avenue between S. Grand Avenue West and W. Laurel Street
• 25 customers — Greencastle Circle area
• 22 customers — Cartwright Drive and Whitefield Road area
• 21 customers — S. Spring Street, S. 1st Street and S. 2nd Street south of E. Kimble Street
• 18 customers — W. Governor Street and W. Jackson Street west of S. Feldkamp Avenue
• 13 customers — 8th and Cass Streets area
• 10 customers — N. 22nd Street north of Clear Lake Avenue
• 10 customers — N. 23rd Street north of E. Ridgely Avenue
• Another 10 additional scattered locations in smaller individualized outages

Weather Ready
CWLP continues to monitor forecasts from the National Weather Service, which indicate severe storms may again impact central Illinois on Saturday. Damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph are the primary concern, with isolated large hail also possible.

Customers are encouraged to remain weather aware and ensure they have multiple ways to receive emergency weather alerts. Storm preparedness and outage safety information can be found on CWLP's website.

See our storm ready tips https://cwlp.com/BlogDetails.aspx/Being_Prepared_For_Storms_Power_Outages and more help on the City's weather resources page, click the Weather Resources tab, https://www.springfield.il.us/CommunityHome.aspx?WeatherResources .

In addition to electric crew deployment, CWLP's Electric Operations Division remains fully staffed at Dispatch at 217-789-2121.

UPDATE SAT 6 AM: (next update with more detail after 9 AM) We have outages down to 671 customers in approximately 34 locations. The safety of our crews and public will be in mind as again, the US National Weather Service Central Illinois is saying severe storms are possible across central and southeast Illinois Saturday. Damaging wind gusts to around 60 mph is the primary hazard, but isolated large hail over an inch will be possible possible. Stay weather aware and ensure you have multiple ways to receive warnings. See our storm ready tips https://cwlp.com/BlogDetails.aspx/Being_Prepared_For_Storms_Power_Outages .

Thus far, we remain fully transitioned from working on the larger circuits outages to working as quickly and safely as we can addressing the last pockets of small group outages. Thank you for your patience with our crews and staff in working to restore power to you. Restoring service to the city as quickly and safely as possible remains our top priority. We won't stop working until all lights are back on.

Largest Outages, NOTE: This is NOT inclusive of all work areas and priorities.
-79 + 15 N Rutledge and N 1st between Yates Ave and W Calhoun Ave
-76 Marland St and N 7th St between E Sangamon Ave and Garfield St.
-68 Hoover Ave and S Woodward St between E Culver Ave and Stevenson Dr (also noted Fox Bridge Rd nearby) (wire down)
-49 Glen Aire-Delmar Dr, Radcliff Rd, Villanova Dr
-36 S Bates to S Wiggins between S Grand Ave W to W Laurel
-36 + 14 Ruth Ct., Bonnie Ct, Lowell, Holmes (crossarm and wire repair)
-31 Wienold Ln area
-30 Bruns Ln, Heather Hill Dr
-28 W Maple, S Douglas, W Urban, S Park
-25 S 3rd N of E Apple Orchard
-25 Greencastle Circle
-22 Cartwright Dr, Whitefield Rd
-18 W Governor St, W Jackson St W of S Feldkamp
-13 8th & Cass St area
-13 Park, Lincoln S of Cherry
-12 part of N 22 and N 23 (branch on power line in the alley)
-11 + 10 S Spring, S 1st, S 2nd, S of E Kimble
-10 N 22nd N of Clear Lake
-10 N 23rd N of E Ridgely
-AND 11 other scattered pockets around the city, details to come.

**Apologies--our blog page for copies of these outage updates is not able to be accessed by us at this time. We hope to get that back soon.

UPDATE Sat. 12 AM: Customer outages are down to 823 customers. Crew work is continuing overnight and won't stop until every customer is restored. We have fully transitioned from working on the larger circuits outages and are now down to addressing the last pockets of small group outages. Thank you for your patience with our crews and staff in working to restore power to you. Restoring service to the city as quickly and safely as possible remains our top priority. We won't stop working until all lights are back on.

Largest Outages, Note: This is NOT inclusive of all work areas and priorities.

-157 S 10th St. and S 9th between E Ash St and Bryn Mawr Blvd
-79 + 15 N Rutledge and N 1st between Yates Ave and W Calhoun Ave
-76 Marland St and N 7th St between E Sangamon Ave and Garfield St.
-68 Hoover Ave and S Woodward St between E Culver Ave and Stevenson Dr (also noted Fox Bridge Rd nearby) (wire down)
-49 Delmar Dr, Radcliff Rd, Villanova Dr
-36 S Bates to S Wiggins between S Grand Ave W to W Laurel
-36 + 15 Ruth Ct., Bonnie Ct, Lowell, Holmes (crossarm and wire repair)
-31 Wienold Ln area
-30 Bruns Ln, Heather Hill Dr
-28 W Maple, S Douglas, W Urban, S Park
-25 S 3rd N of E Apple Orchard
-25 Greencastle Circle
-22 Cartwright Dr, Whitefield Rd
-18 W Governor St, W Jackson St W of S Feldkamp
-13 8th & Cass St area
-13 Park, Lincoln S of Cherry
-16 other scattered pockets around the city.

Need Assistance?
Resources for Cooling Centers, Safety Information and more, Click on the Weather Resources tab at https://www.springfield.il.us/CommunityHome.aspx?WeatherResources

Have new electric trouble to report or confirm? Call our 24 hour Dispatch at 217-789-2121.

UPDATE 7:30 PM: Customer outages are down to 1,176 customers in 44 locations. Crews will continue working through the night to restore service as quickly and safely as possible to all customers. Our Electric Operations Division is fully staffed and they continue to review outage and damage reports received through Dispatch at 217-789-2121 to ensure no trouble overlooked.

Among the largest current outage areas:
-157 S 10th St. and S 9th between E Ash St and Bryn Mawr Blvd
-133 S Koke Mill area near Ginger Creek Dr and Conner Dr (3 broken poles with transformer equip, several hours)
-127 Old Crows Way, Christopher Ln, Brent Dr
-79 N Rutledge and N 1st between Yates Ave and W Calhoun Ave
-76 Marland St and N 7th St between E Sangamon Ave and Garfield St.
-68 Hoover Ave and S Woodward St between E Culver Ave and Stevenson Dr
-37 other scattered pockets around the city.

UPDATE 11:15 AM: Customer outages are down to 2,033 customers. CWLP and contract crews are assigned around the City where poles are being replaced, limbs are being cleared and electric repairs are being completed to get power restored to all customers as quickly and safely as possible.

Among the largest current outage areas:
-180 and 198 in Indian Hills and Northgate (expecting Ameren work to be complete by 1 pm)
-223 W of N MacArthur W Calhoun & W Reynolds near Duncan Park
-133 S Koke Mill area near Ginger Creek Dr and Conner Dr (3 broken poles with transformer equip, several hours)
-132 Rickard Rd area (expecting to restore by 2pm)
-48 other scattered pockets around the city.

Questions About Safety, Help For Neighbors? Click the Weather Resources tab: https://www.springfield.il.us/CommunityHome.aspx?WeatherResources

UPDATE 6:30 AM: Customer outages are down to 3,800 customers.

Among the largest outage areas:
-1594 out of Durkin substation S of W Washington to Old Jacksonville Rd.
-223 Madison St. area near Duncan Park
-198 Northgate area
-180 Indian Hills (Awaiting Ameren crews to return Friday morning)
- 167 Southern View area near Rt. 66 Hotel
-159 along W Monroe between W Washington and Old Jacksonville Rd.
-63 other scattered pockets around the city.

UPDATE 5 AM: Follow our outage updates here for work and progress beginning Friday, June 12.

Thursday night there were over 11,000 customers without power across 64 outage areas. Damage assessments found multiple snapped poles, and widespread tree and limb damage throughout the system. Working through the night, crews had customer outages down to 7,800 by 2:30 a.m., 5,600 by 4 a.m., and 4,600 by 5 a.m. With 13 distribution feeders out, crews have restored 10 of those.

Among the largest outage areas:
-1594 out of Durkin substation S of W Washington to Old Jacksonville Rd.
-911 in Outer Park Drive and E Ash area (should be picked up soon)
-223 Madison St. area near Duncan Park
-180 Indian Hills (Awaiting Ameren crews to return Friday morning)
-69 other scattered pockets around the city.

With all available resources, including CWLP crews in the field from Electric Operations Troubleshooters, Construction, Substations, Relay, Traffic, Communications, and other support divisions, progress had been made but more work is to be done until all customers are restored power.

Staff are reviewing outage and damage reports received through Dispatch at 217-789-2121 to ensure no reported issues are overlooked. If you have already reported your outage, you do not need to call back and leave another message.

We appreciate our customers' patience. Our employees are committed to restoring power to every affected customer as safely and efficiently as possible while protecting both the public and our crews in the field.

You can follow status on our Outage Map, https://outagemap.cwlp.com/. Our web link to follow outage status beginning Friday June 12, https://cwlp.com/BlogDetails.aspx/Power_Restoration_Updates_Beginning_Fri_June_12

NOTE FOR INDIAN HILLS: Customers in Indian Hills will remain without power until Ameren crews return on site Friday morning to complete their work for equipment attached to our pole.

🎉YOUTH IN THE MOMENT: JUNETEENTH 8 Day CELEBRATION 🎉

Calling all youth, families, and community members! Join us for a FREE afternoon of fun, learning, creativity, and celebration as we launch the Juneteenth 8-Day Celebration!

📅 Friday, June 13
⏰ Noon – 3:00 PM
💲 FREE & Open to All Ages

We’re excited to partner with the Juneteenth Inc.- Springfield, IL to kick off this year’s festivities with an engaging event designed to uplift, inspire, and connect our young people to the history, culture, and spirit of Juneteenth.

Come enjoy:
✨ Interactive activities
🎨 Creative expression
📚 Opportunities to learn about the legacy of freedom and resilience

Bring your friends, bring your family, and help us celebrate the past, honor the present, and build a brighter future together!

𝐀 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲!
Join Faith Coalition for an Integrated Voter Engagement and Community Action Training on June 26–27, 2026 focused on the upcoming Integrated Voter Engagement and Landlord Licensing, Registration, and Inspection Advisory Question that will appear on the November 2026 ballot.

As voter rights continue to face attacks across the country, it is more important than ever that we strengthen civic participation, protect our democracy, and ensure our communities have a voice in decisions that directly impact their lives. Together, we can organize for safe homes, informed voters, and stronger neighborhoods. We are working to collect 9,000 signatures by August, and this training will help prepare participants to:

🗣️Mobilize voters and community members
✨Learn organizing and outreach strategies
🗣️Build skills in one-to-one conversations and power analysis
✨Support petition circulation and signature collection
🗣️Text and Phone Banking Trainings (Action)
Canvassing Training (Action)

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVgPpo1jE15y9lntzCOtbScm_FYm6PWlFcrydyORG4eJMaLw/viewform

Gov. Pritzker orders pause on new data center deals SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS/WRSP)— Gov. JB Pritzker is directing the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to pause processing new agreements under the state's Data Center Investment Program beginning July

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State Budget Extends Pretrial Success Pilot - Coalition to End Money Bond In the wee hours of the morning, Illinois’ General Assembly passed a FY2027 budget that includes $1.5 million dollars to extend the Pretrial Success Pilot Program! While we began this session with a call to fully fund this program statewide, we are still incredibly excited that we have another yea...

Legislators are still on the floor! You can call their office before MIDNIGHT to ask that they provide $2.5 million in new funding to keep the Pretrial Success Grants Program going.

Look up your legislators using this link.

https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/?link_id=1&can_id=1f7947d1adc97cbbbaa56d3aaef02020&source=email-pretrial-success-funding-is-not-currently-in-the-budget&email_referrer=email_3261636&email_subject=pretrial-success-funding-is-not-currently-in-the-budget #

Let’s save the Pretrial Success Act!

🚨Save the Pretrial Success Act🚨

The Pretrial Success Grants Program has been providing essential support for people awaiting trial but new funding is not currently in the state budget. If the General Assembly doesn’t add it to the budget today, this vital program will no longer exist.

Please call your State Senator and State Representative as soon as possible to ask that they continue to fund pretrial success! Find your legislators by visiting bit.ly/LookUpLegislators

Last year, the Illinois legislature funded the creation of the Pretrial Success Grant Program as a pilot program in five counties. The Pretrial Success Grant Program is bolstering the success of people who are released pretrial, thanks to the Pretrial Fairness Act, by expanding access to vital services like transportation and child care so they can attend court and providing resources for mental health, substance use disorder and other needs.

This program needs funding in order to survive. Right now, there is no new funding for the Pretrial Success Act in the budget. The deadline to pass a budget is midnight tonight, so this is our very last chance to convince our legislators to give this program the funding it needs to keep succeeding.

Look up your State Senator and State Representative’s Springfield phone numbers (the number with the 217 area code), and give them a quick call RIGHT NOW to ask that they provide $2.5 million in new funding to keep the Pretrial Success Grants Program going.

Find your legislators by visiting bit.ly/LookUpLegislators

𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐭!! ⚡️💚🗣️ Springfield organizers, leaders, advocates, and residents joined hundreds of fellow Illinoisans at the capital today. Illinois needs to establish guardrails to ensure energy- and water-intensive data centers don’t increase families’ utility bills, pollute our air, or threaten our water supply. Let’s pass these commonsense safeguards NOW‼️We can do this by passing the Power Act.

We had a great convo with Senator Doris Turner about how data centers can impact frontline communities. It’s time to pass the POWER Act to ensure that ALL Illinoisans are protected from unchecked data center development.⚡️

Missed ? That’s okay! You can still join us and the hundreds of other Illinoisans to lobby our legislators by reaching out to yours via email. It’s easy! Use this form to send a note of support: act.ilenviro.org/a/poweract

Over 600 Illinoisans are headed to Springfield today to support the POWER Act! Illinois has the chance to pass nation-leading legislation that protects residents from data center harms. Let’s make it happen!⚡️ The Governor and state lawmakers need to stand UP to Big Tech and stand FOR Illinois communities to ensure data centers don’t harm our water, energy, ratepayers, and frontline communities!

Join us at the Power Act Rally TODAY, May 30th at Noon!