By WMBD-TV BLOOMINGTON – The Illinois primary election wrapped up Tuesday night – and no surprise it was President Joe Biden and Donald Trump winning in their respective parties. Mike O’Neal wins the GOP primary for McLean County Board District 2 Mike O’Neal has won the Republican primary to replace a retiring member of the…… MORE
An executive order, which the governor signed Monday, takes on sickle cell disease. It’s diagnosed at birth and expensive to treat.… MORE
One Republican, State Rep. Joe Sosnowski (R-Rockford), says the state would have a million more people if it grew at the same rates as Indiana, Missouri, and Wisconsin.… MORE
Gov. JB Pritzker says a new health care bill, announced during the State of the State message, will give Illinoisans an advantage against Big Insurance.… MORE
The people with the sharp pencils are bringing into focus how much money Illinois is bringing in for the fiscal year ending June 30. And it’s a little more than earlier believed.… MORE
Republicans at the state Capitol are getting lots of mileage out of how Gov. JB Pritzker is handling the migrant crisis.… MORE
Illinois has had medical cannabis for years. Magic mushrooms could be next.… MORE
On an August day in 2019, then-Democratic state Sen. Terry Link stood outside of a suburban Wendy’s and solicited a bribe from his colleague in the Illinois House.… MORE
A Cook County judge on Wednesday ordered former President Donald Trump’s name to be removed from the March 19 Republican primary ballot but stayed her order until Friday to give time for an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court. … MORE
Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is not only a U.S. senator. She is a mother of two, both children born through in vitro fertilization (IVF). … 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…