An Urbana native who was bullied in high school made bullying her 2003 Miss America platform – and now has supervised a report on bullying in the legal profession. … MORE
Category Archives: State News
Illinois State Police investigate another Sangamon County officer-involved death
Illinois State Police launched an investigation into the death of a Kansas man during a multi-county pursuit on Sept. 22 by Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputies.… MORE
Illinois Senate Rep. calls for investigation after latest report of mismanagement at DCFS
The latest report of abuse of Illinois’ most vulnerable children has Illinois Senate Republicans calling for an investigation.… MORE
IMA President: “We want to tell the story of what’s made in Illinois,” as statewide bus tour launches
Manufacturing can be about numbers. There are certainly many of them in the story of the “Makers on the Move” bus tour, the third edition of which kicked off Friday in Springfield.… MORE
ADM stops carbon injection as its Decatur facility remains under federal scrutiny
After identifying an underground carbon dioxide leak earlier this year, agribusiness giant ADM found a further “anomaly” in one of the wells at its Decatur carbon dioxide sequestration plant last week.… MORE
Pritzker touts Illinois’ economic development at data center groundbreaking
A Texas-based company broke ground on a new data center in Aurora on Wednesday, the latest in a boom of data storage facility developments in northern Illinois. … MORE
Macoupin County state’s attorney asks for special prosecutor in Heinz case
A Macoupin County judge approved the appointment of a special prosecutor to review a criminal case against August Heinz, the funeral home director accused of giving dozens of families the wrong ashes.… MORE
Ameren sending crews to east coast to assist with Hurricane Helene Restoration
Ameren workers across Illinois and Missouri are heading to the East Coast to assist in repairing damage and restoring power outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.… MORE
Exhibit in Springfield tells the story of one part of the fight against slavery
A traveling exhibit – now in Springfield until November – tells an arguably underpublicized story: that of the Underground Railroad, a network of abolitionists who helped slaves escape the South.… MORE
Illinois Retail Merchants Association going after “swipe fees”
If you are a small business person, you could say this about credit cards: can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em.… MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
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.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
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…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
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…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
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…