As many Illinoisans head back to the office for the first time in more than a year, something new will be waiting for them: a chance to get a coronavirus vaccination.… MORE
As many Illinoisans head back to the office for the first time in more than a year, something new will be waiting for them: a chance to get a coronavirus vaccination.… MORE
Supporters of a bill to standardize election procedures across Illinois do not arise from claims President Biden’s victory last fall was fraudulent.… MORE
University of Illinois professor Fred Giertz says his figures show Illinois is in positive territory for the first time since before the pandemic began.… MORE
The opposing political parties in Springfield offer opposing views of just how diabolical the every-ten-years process of redistricting really is.… MORE
After a year off because of the coronavirus, and with a refurbished and improved statue standing behind them, police officers and families from around the state gathered for Illinois’ annual police memorial ceremony.… MORE
Illinois will enter the Bridge Phase of the Restore Illinois plan on May 14 and could fully reopen by June 11, according to Gov. JB Pritzker.… MORE
Members of the Illinois House took time to kick around the idea of statehood for Washington, D.C., as a resolution. That, of course, carries no weight, nor do people at the Illinois State Capitol have the authority to decide D.C. statehood.… MORE
State pension costs are not the only thing tying up the budgets. It’s also local pension costs.… MORE
Almost sixty years after music’s British Invasion inspired teenagers to test the boundaries with their hairstyles, schoolchildren are still finding the rules oppressive.… MORE
One of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s old friends says it’s time for a change.… 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…