A year after a half dozen Asian-American women were killed in Atlanta spas, Illinois women have not forgotten.… MORE
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A year after a half dozen Asian-American women were killed in Atlanta spas, Illinois women have not forgotten.… MORE
For the first time since 2018, the Federal Reserve approved its first interest rate increase by a quarter percentage point or 25 basis points.… MORE
Almost fifty years ago, then-President Gerald Ford had “Whip Inflation Now” buttons. Maybe they should come back.… MORE
The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is informing lawmakers about their plans to downsize the Pontiac and Vandalia Correctional Centers.… MORE
Recordings ordered by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI may depict Martin Luther King Jr. in an unflattering, personal light, and State Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) wants those recordings destroyed.… MORE
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is addressing Congress after the Senate approved a massive spending package that sends $13.6 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine.… MORE
By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Candidates who believe being last on the list on the ballot give them an edge showed up for the final hour of filing Monday at the Illinois State Board of Elections in Springfield. Despite a lack of evidence that ballot position matters, it’s custom for candidates to line up early…… MORE
By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Native Americans in northern Illinois want their land back. “In 1849, my fourth great-grandfather, Chief Shab-eh-nay, traveled to Kansas to visit the relatives after we were removed,” Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation chairman Joseph Rupnick told a statehouse news conference. “The U.S. government illegally auctioned off 1,280 acres of his land,…… MORE
We are hearing again about the benefits of early childhood education. One is that it is key to a healthy economy.… MORE
The new federal budget, passed Thursday, includes “member initiatives,” also known as “earmarks.”… 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…