The high school sports fall schedule will look different this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.… MORE
Category Archives: State News
Com Ed apologizes
The utility which has admitted trying to bribe its way into favorable legislation sent its top people to state regulators Wednesday.… MORE
Gov. Pritzker announces new guidelines for organized sports in Illinois
Gov. JB Pritzker announced Wednesday youth and adult organized sports in Illinois, except professional and college leagues, will be restricted moving forward.… MORE
Ride to Remember
If police can put their lives on the line every day, a baker’s dozen motorcyclists can be away from home for a little more than two months.… MORE
Illinois’ two major cash crops moving along
Warm and wet were the watchwords of last week in the farm fields of Illinois, according to the USDA crop report.… MORE
Black curtain now covers Stephen Douglas portrait in the Illinois House chamber
A black curtain now covers the Stephen Douglas portrait in the Illinois House chamber, and an art expert is okay with that – and with removing statues of slave owners Douglas and Pierre Menard from the Capitol grounds in Springfield.… MORE
Gov. Pritzker says mask up until 2021
By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Get used to wearing those masks. Gov. JB Pritzker says he sees an end date for the coronavirus mitigation measures, but that date is six or more months away. “We don’t have to do this forever,” said Pritzker. “You’ve seen there’s progress on vaccines and treatments, and we’re not there yet.…… MORE
House Republicans not satisfied with IDES
Illinois House Republicans are not satisfied with the answers they are getting – or, rather, NOT getting – from the Pritzker administration about the troubled Illinois Department of Employment Security.… MORE
Unions representing college and university employees worry about fall reopening
Some university faculty and staff around the state want to pump the brakes on what they perceive as hurrying back to campus needlessly.… MORE
State officials announce 1,598 new cases of COVID-19, one-day high in July
Even though Illinois’ coronavirus numbers are a fraction of those in Arizona, Florida, and Texas, Gov. Pritzker says a rise is a rise. He announced 1,598 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, a one-day high for July in Illinois.… 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…