IBHE is asking for for $3.4 billion for public universities in the coming fiscal year that begins July 1, $1.7 billion of that would go to the university retirement system. … MORE
IBHE is asking for for $3.4 billion for public universities in the coming fiscal year that begins July 1, $1.7 billion of that would go to the university retirement system. … MORE
Illinois’ own Brett Eldredge will turn this year’s Illinois State Fair into a homecoming. … MORE
The new justice on the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t speak during Monday’s oral arguments on the workers’ rights case Janus vs. AFSCME. … MORE
After overwhelming demand crashed the website, the largest providers of Illinois’ private school scholarships is ready to start accepting more applications for K-12 private school tuition assistance.… MORE
Illinois is changing the standardized test offered to kids in elementary school and junior high, but some school leaders are wondering if the changes will fix the test’s biggest problem.… MORE
Illinois’ bicentennial organizers are looking to come up with a list of the very best of Illinois, just in time for the state’s 200th birthday.… MORE
An Illinois state senator wants to speed up the process that allows consolidation to reduce units of local governments and in a bid to reduce the state’s highest-in-the-nation property taxes. … MORE
Congressman Darin LaHood says that Illinois has a handle on Asian carp, and doesn’t need to be pushed, pulled, or told what direction to go.… MORE
Gov. Bruce Rauner is responding to last week’s school shootings in Florida by suggesting more can be done to prevent guns from getting into the wrong hands.… MORE
As Illinois looks to change how the state taxes hospitals to pay for Medicaid, lawmakers have two major worries.… 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…