Packages of anti-Semitic literature are targeting Illinois Jews.… MORE
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March Meltdown Hockey Tourney takes place March 11-13
By Jake Fogal BLOOMINGTON-The third annual Central Illinois Girls’ Hockey Association March Meltdown Tournament is taking place this weekend. The Bloomington Ice Center and Grossinger Motors Arena will play host for the tourney, taking place March 11-13. The competition is open to the public as over 260 female athletes from 17 teams will travel from…… MORE
Local Commodity Broker: Prices are on a ‘roller coaster ride’
Commodity prices are on a ‘roller coaster ride’ as futures skyrocket but dipped into negative territory earlier this week.… MORE
Miller Park Zoo receives State Grant
By Jake Fogal BLOOMINGTON-Miller Park Zoo has been awarded a $750,000 Illinois Department of Natural Resources Public Museum Capital Grant by the State of Illinois. The grant monies will go toward infrastructure and basement renovations on the 108-year-old Katthoefer Animal Building, the largest of all the projects on the Zoo campus. Zoo Superintendent Jay Tetzloff…… MORE
McLean County receives state funding to improve Meadows Road
By Neil Doyle BLOOMINGTON – The governor made a stop in Bloomington Wednesday morning and announced additional funding through the state’s capital program. The latest $250 million installment will address local transportation needs around the state. In McLean County, the funding will advance a $7.9 million project to improve County Highway 23, or Meadows Road.…… MORE
House Republicans say it’s past time for Illinois to stand up for Ukraine
By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Republicans in the Illinois House say they want to respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Citing a large Ukrainian population in the state, Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) says the state must get involved. “Our role,” Durkin told a statehouse news conference Tuesday, “is to restrict Russia’s interest…… MORE
2 dead from Bloomington apartment shooting
By Neil Doyle BLOOMINGTON – Two people are dead, including a child, after a shooting Tuesday night in Bloomington. Police were called around 7:45 p.m. to the 1000 block of Four Seasons Road. The McLean County Coroner pronounced a six-year old child dead at the scene. Authorities say a 35-year old man suffered injuries consistent…… MORE
Illinois hotel industry asking for pandemic relief
Now it’s the hotel industry’s turn to ask for pandemic relief. … MORE
Illinois lawmakers are no longer required to wear a mask on the floor of their respected chambers
SPRINGFIELD – Let the unmasking begin.… MORE
ISU Gender Studies Professor looks back on history during Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month, and a Illinois State University Professor is looking back on history.… MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
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.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
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…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
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…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
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…