A state lawmaker is looking for answers following Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s executive order allowing prisoner furloughs.… MORE
A state lawmaker is looking for answers following Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s executive order allowing prisoner furloughs.… MORE
If you pay attention to the billboards or to the signs on the trucks … the trucking companies want you to apply for a job. And the trucking business is strong — if only you can get a commercial driver’s license.… MORE
The ACLU of Illinois called on law enforcement agencies across the state to avoid using widespread arrests to enforce Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s emergency stay-at-home order.… MORE
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed an executive order to allow medically vulnerable people out of Illinois’ prisons during the COVID-19 emergency.… MORE
Illinois is ahead of the national average in terms of responding to the U.S. Census, according to federal officials.… MORE
One of the lawmakers who will have to put state finances back together says there will be no good choices.… MORE
The COVID-19 crisis has hit rural and small Illinois school districts hard. … MORE
The farmers are taking a look at the possibilities of 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. … MORE
Budget experts are at odds over how to handle Illinois’ coming pension debts.… MORE
Gov. J.B. Pritzker is counting on help from the federal government to shore up the state’s finances as the number of COVID-19 cases in Illinois continues to climb.… 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…