By Jake Fogal BLOOMINGTON – Average gasoline prices in Illinois have risen over 10 cents in the last week, averaging $4.14 a gallon According to GasBuddy’s survey of over 43-hundred stations in Illinois, prices in the state are 31 cents higher than a month ago. GasBuddy price reports show the cheapest station in Illinois is…… MORE
By WMBD-TV NORMAL – Police here continue to investigate a shooting that occurred over the weekend that left a boy with non life-threatening injuries. Officers with the Normal Police Department were at a hospital on Aug. 12 on an unrelated case when they learned a person had arrived with a gunshot wound, according to the…… MORE
For many of us, the Illinois State Fair is about food. And an annual contest to select the best fair food has resulted in another win for Classic Kitchen.… MORE
The people who count crops for a living have the first 2023 yield forecast out.… MORE
When you are a veteran, you have something nobody can take away.… MORE
Normal is one step closer to changing the zoning codes for cannabis businesses.… MORE
The Illinois State Fair announced Thursday evening that the annual Ag Day Breakfast, set for Friday morning, has been canceled.… MORE
The statewide FFA leaders served as grand marshals for the Twilight Parade, which closed out the first day of the Illinois State Fair.… MORE
Thursday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Illinois State Fair mixed the serious and the not-so-serious.… MORE
Roger Schmidgall was honored as the Town of Normal’s 2023 Citizen of the Year at the town’s annual appreciation reception Wednesday.… 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…