With 36 coronavirus-related deaths at one veterans’ home on her watch, Monday was the end for Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs director Linda Chapa LaVia.… MORE
With 36 coronavirus-related deaths at one veterans’ home on her watch, Monday was the end for Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs director Linda Chapa LaVia.… MORE
Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) released a statement Monday and said he has suspended his campaign for Speaker.… MORE
Southern Illinois lawmaker Darren Bailey, a House Republican who later this week will join the Senate, fainted during the House session Sunday at the Bank of Springfield Center in Springfield.… MORE
Illinois House Democrats will start voting in Sunday, as House Speaker Mike Madigan is in danger of missing out on a nineteenth term.… MORE
Illinois House Republicans are again lighting into the state’s unemployment system. Delays, fraud, and a short staff are among the problems at the Illinois Department of Employment Security, and State Rep. Jeff Keicher (R-Sycamore) is not here for it. He says it starts at the top.… MORE
Criticism continues from within the President’s own party after Wednesday’s riots at the Capitol.… MORE
Could it happen here? It already has.… MORE
The message remains: wear a mask. But there’s a new one: get a shot.… MORE
One of the state’s top Democrats, U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), took the opportunity in the hours after the Capitol breach Wednesday to, again, bash President Trump.… MORE
If House Speaker Mike Madigan’s (D-Chicago) days are numbered atop the chamber, supermajority Democrats could make history by electing a woman.… 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…