By WMBD-TV CHICAGO – Illinois Lottery is partnering with the Illinois Council on Problem Gambling (ICPG) again as part of Problem Gambling Awareness Month. An Illinois Lottery news release confirms that they, alongside ICPG, will bring public attention to problem gambling prevention, and treatment, and different recovery options across the state. “We are proud to…… MORE
Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that former president Donald Trump will remain on ballots came down just as Gov. JB Pritzker was about to begin an announcement in Urbana.… MORE
By WMBD-TV SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced that he is backing legislation that would allow Illinois residents to use digital driver’s licenses and state IDs. According to a news release from the Secretary of States Office, Giannoulias is supporting Illinois HB 4592 which could implement the digital IDs as early as next year.…… MORE
A Cook County judge on Wednesday ordered former President Donald Trump’s name to be removed from the March 19 Republican primary ballot but stayed her order until Friday to give time for an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court. … MORE
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By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Bloomington-Normal is the place to be for electric vehicles in Illinois. Rivian is the main event there, but Gov. JB Pritzker Tuesday helped cut the ribbon on Heartland Community College’s expanded Advanced Manufacturing Training Center, where students can learn about, among other things, EV’s. The project benefited from $7.5 million…… MORE
Gov. JB Pritzker used the opening of a South Side Chicago birthing center Monday to speak up about a scourge of America and Illinois: maternal morbidity.… MORE
Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is not only a U.S. senator. She is a mother of two, both children born through in vitro fertilization (IVF). … MORE
If you have medical insurance, obviously, you want to see a health care provider who is in-network.… 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…