Gov. Bruce Rauner is issuing disaster declarations for eight northwestern Illinois counties, enabling state government to continue offering aid to flooded communities.… MORE
Gov. Bruce Rauner is issuing disaster declarations for eight northwestern Illinois counties, enabling state government to continue offering aid to flooded communities.… MORE
Gov. Bruce Rauner called another special session of the Illinois General Assembly because the Democrat-controlled General Assembly refused to send him an education funding measure approved in May.… MORE
Congress has saved the USDA laboratory in Peoria, even as the city’s congressman says he still wants to see federal budget cuts.… MORE
The push to allow testing of autonomous vehicles on Illinois roads has stalled for now, but the sponsor of the measure hopes to rev up talks again soon.… MORE
High schools across Illinois could have an easier time finding shop or welding teachers this year.… MORE
Illinois State University’s governing board is offering a glowing evaluation of President Larry Dietz, and adoption of a new state budget enables the Board of Trustees to negotiate a new contract with Dietz.… MORE
Governor Bruce Rauner is telling lawmakers to send him the education funding bill or be prepared to report to Springfield.… MORE
Illinois’ statewide elections authority will take up a series of questions from the Trump Administration’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, but it might not offer much response.… MORE
The state’s jobless rate edged higher in June compared to the previous month, as the Illinois Department of Employment Security said the state is not keeping with stronger job markets nationwide.… MORE
Illinois is again avoiding the unwelcome prospect of becoming the first state in the U.S. to have its credit sink to junk.… 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…