One of the busiest sports days of the year provided plenty of local excitement.… MORE
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One of the busiest sports days of the year provided plenty of local excitement.… MORE
Links can be found here to listen to four big football games. … MORE
Times are set for high school football second round playoff games this weekend.… MORE
Second-round matchups are set in the Illinois High School Association football playoffs.… MORE
WJBC.com will provide play-by-play Saturday of the Bloomington and Normal Community first round games. … MORE
WJBC will broadcast Friday night’s playoff opener at Normal West with Saturday’s games from Normal Community and Bloomington available on WJBC.com.… MORE
As the high school football regular season ends this weekend, teams wait for Saturday night’s announcement of the 256 playoff teams.… MORE
Regular season finales this weekend will determine where teams will be placed in postseason brackets.… MORE
Top state hardware is headed to local trophy cases after Saturday’s state high school golf championships.… MORE
A shootout in Peoria and a battle between the teams tied for second in the Big Twelve Conference highlighted Week 8 high school football on Friday night. … MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…