University High School earned its first win of the high school football season in a weather-altered Week 5 schedule Friday night, as two other games were suspended and one was postponed to Saturday.… MORE
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University High School earned its first win of the high school football season in a weather-altered Week 5 schedule Friday night, as two other games were suspended and one was postponed to Saturday.… MORE
Scoreboards are sponsored by COUNTRY Financial Representative Eric Lapan.… MORE
A pair of the top three teams in the Big Twelve Conference will meet in Friday’s featured game of the WJBC Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza for Week 5. … MORE
Scoreboards are sponsored by COUNTRY Financial Representative Eric Lapan.… MORE
Scoreboards are sponsored by COUNTRY Financial Representative Eric Lapan.… MORE
Normal West earned a crosstown victory in Week 4 of high school football while Central Catholic snapped a losing streak. … MORE
Scoreboards are sponsored by COUNTRY Financial Representative Eric Lapan.… MORE
A Big Twelve Conference meeting between two Intercity squads highlights the fourth week of the high school football season. … MORE
Scoreboards are sponsored by COUNTRY Financial Representative Eric Lapan.… MORE
Scoreboards are sponsored by COUNTRY Financial Representative Eric Lapan.… 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…