A four-year-old boy is home safe tonight, just one day after being rescued by police officers after falling into a Pekin lake.… MORE
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A four-year-old boy is home safe tonight, just one day after being rescued by police officers after falling into a Pekin lake.… MORE
Amid an invasion by Russian troops in Ukraine, one central Illinois Congressman thinks the United States can do more to help Ukraine.… MORE
The Speaker of the Illinois House believes face mask rules in the chamber should be more stringent than what Gov. JB Pritzker has laid out.… MORE
A man from Louisiana is out on bond from LaSalle County after being arrested on a warrant for traveling to meet a child and indecent solicitation of a child.… MORE
Two pandemic years of missed family events and sleepless nights are enough for Dr. Ngozi Ezike.… MORE
Ralph Monical, the founder of Monical’s Pizza, has passed away.… MORE
Members of Congress got the Illinois story Tuesday morning from Gov. JB Pritzker.… MORE
By IIS Radio CHICAGO – Gov. JB Pritzker celebrated the end of the state’s mask mandate with a stop by Navy Pier in Chicago on Monday. Masks are no longer required in stores, bars, restaurants, daycares and schools. It’s a great feeling says Pritzker. “And it’s all because the people of Illinois did the right…… MORE
By HOI ABC BLOOMINGTON – Bloomington Police will soon have the technology officers said they need to help solve major crimes. The city council voted 8-1 Monday night to approve a two-year contract with Flock Safety to install automatic license plate-reading cameras. The first year of the contract, cameras will be placed at 10 locations…… MORE
A 4-year-old child and three Pekin Police officers were taken to a local hospital after the child was rescued after falling into a lake.… 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…