State Senator Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington) is not on board with a bill to give each baby born or adopted in Illinois $50 to start a college savings account.… MORE
State Senator Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington) is not on board with a bill to give each baby born or adopted in Illinois $50 to start a college savings account.… MORE
A bill to give each baby born in Illinois – starting next year – fifty dollars to start a college savings account is easy for House Republicans not to like.… MORE
A transgender female inmate has been transferred to a women’s facility after claiming she was sexually assaulted while in a Pontiac men’s prison.… MORE
“I made a total ass out of myself,” said State Rep. Steve Reick (R-Woodstock) Tuesday.… MORE
April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and the Normal Police Department is joining other local and state agencies to enforce the hands-free law.… MORE
Another Illinois State Police trooper was tragically struck and killed on the interstate over the weekend.… MORE
Illinois lawmakers are closer to sending Gov. J.B. Pritzker legislation that would allow for more college students at public universities to unionize.… MORE
An NBA executive was in Springfield Thursday to say it’s time to get used to sports betting being legal.… MORE
The six top Catholics of Illinois – Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and the five bishops of the state’s other dioceses – joined a doctor and a nurse from Catholic hospitals to speak against any expansion of abortion.… MORE
An estimated six to eight thousand yellow-shirted gun owners marched on the Capitol Wednesday afternoon for the annual I-GOLD — Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day.… 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…