The Illinois Department of Public Health Monday reported 8,322 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus, including 47 additional deaths.… MORE
The Illinois Department of Public Health Monday reported 8,322 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus, including 47 additional deaths.… MORE
A US District Judge sentenced Randall E. Tarr, of Rochester, to serve two years probation with a requirement that Tarr undergo mental health counseling and treatment for threatening to shoot U.S. Congressman Rodney Davis.… MORE
To cap off a week in which more than a dozen House Democrats have gone away from House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago), his public relations people released a statement saying he doesn’t intend to go anywhere.… MORE
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
It’s almost time for winter weather, and that means it’s time for the Illinois Department of Transportation and Illinois State Police to remind us of winter driving skills.… MORE
Gov. JB Pritzker says the best way to avoid a stay-at-home order is to act as if there is one.… MORE
There is less to talk about this time of year for the USDA crop report.… 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
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…