The Illinois Department of Revenue has general information regarding how much more you’ll have to pay the state in income taxes.… MORE
The Illinois Department of Revenue has general information regarding how much more you’ll have to pay the state in income taxes.… MORE
State Rep. Dan Brady (R-Bloomington) has been working to implement a what he calls a ‘modern’ solution to the issue of indigent burials and the lack of available services for them.… MORE
Don’t leave your children in a hot car. That’s the reminder from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.… MORE
Republicans need to change the minds of several of their Senators if they hope to pass a revised version of Trumpcare, but they won’t get the support of Illinois’ two Democratic senators.… MORE
Champaign County Crime Stoppers will announce Friday they are boosting the reward for information that would lead authorities to the whereabouts of missing University of Illinois visiting scholar Yingying Zhang.… MORE
Illinois has a budget to run state government, but the end of the legislative stalemate was not enough to save a local program providing care to older, low-income people so they can remain at home.… MORE
Area lawmakers agree that despite passage of a new state budget, the work in Springfield is not done.… MORE
Three-quarters of Illinois’ state lawmakers will be accepting their per diem for last month’s 10-day special session, which will cost taxpayers at least $145,000.… MORE
Illinois has avoided junk bond status, at least for now, from S&P Global Ratings.… MORE
A federal grand jury has indicted a Champaign man on a kidnapping charge for the abduction last month of University of Illinois visiting scholar Yingying Zhang.… 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…