Conservative State Representative Jeanne Ives said it’s laughable that incumbent Governor Bruce Rauner is trying to link her to Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.… MORE
Conservative State Representative Jeanne Ives said it’s laughable that incumbent Governor Bruce Rauner is trying to link her to Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.… MORE
The Illinois Department of Transportation wants you to party safely during this Saint Patrick’s Day weekend.… MORE
Illinois’ Democratic candidates for governor used their last public debate before the primary to pound front-runner J.B. Pritzker on his secret offshore tax holdings.… MORE
Your office’s $5 NCAA pool is technically illegal, and that’s one reason why sports betting supporters hope to be able to change Illinois’ laws. … MORE
Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed a bill that would require gun dealers to obtain a state license.… MORE
Federal prosecutors say they have linked three Ford County men to the bombing of a Bloomington, Minnesota mosque last August and an attempted bombing three months later at a Champaign women’s health clinic that performs abortions.… MORE
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday signed legislation that updates the state’s hospital assessment program.… MORE
Republican Attorney General Candidate Erika Harold is fighting off allegations that as a beauty pageant contestant she told an interview panel that she would pick a home for foster children with known heterosexual child abusers over placing the kids in a home with a loving gay couple.… MORE
Gov. Bruce Rauner seems to be leaning against the one new, proposed gun law that Illinois lawmakers sent him.… MORE
While the need for manufacturers has grown in Illinois, there aren’t enough applicants to fill about 27,000 manufacturing jobs.… 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…