If House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) is listening, Illinois Republicans have a message for him — GET OUT. … MORE
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If House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) is listening, Illinois Republicans have a message for him — GET OUT. … MORE
By an informal count, Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) would not have the sixty votes needed to retain his job as Speaker of the Illinois House come January.… MORE
Illinois has passed eleven thousand coronavirus deaths, and COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death in the state.… MORE
Coronavirus cases are on the rise, and Illinois’s Senior U.S. Senator says President Trump needs to work with President-elect Joe Biden to prepare for vaccine distribution. … MORE
A McLean County Board seat has apparently flipped to the Democrats two weeks after election day.… MORE
Gov. JB Pritzker says the best way to avoid a stay-at-home order is to act as if there is one.… MORE
Gov. JB Pritzker says the current coronavirus rise is threatening the capacity of hospitals.… MORE
If there’s one person who has even a little idea of the fiscal trouble Gov. JB Pritzker is dealing with, it’s predecessor Jim Edgar. And Edgar did not have a pandemic. Still, he thought he had it tough. … MORE
Those who had to buy their own health insurance before the Affordable Care Act became law are recalling the bad old days.… MORE
A Republican senator and a Democratic representative Thursday shared a Zoom call to say not enough is being done … by not enough people … in the state’s coronavirus response.… 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…