Cicadas on your ice cream? Pizza? It doesn’t bug some
June 12, 2024URBANA, Ill. — “That’s surprisingly delicious!” This is maybe not the phrase first expected to be heard when trying a once-in-a-lifetime lunch menu of cicada pesto pizza, cicada…
URBANA, Ill. — “That’s surprisingly delicious!” This is maybe not the phrase first expected to be heard when trying a once-in-a-lifetime lunch menu of cicada pesto pizza, cicada…
Chronicle Media brought home six first-place awards from the Illinois Press Association’s annual convention, which was held Thursday, June 6 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Bloomington. …
Eighty years ago, soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division played a leading role in the Allied invasion of France, storming Omaha Beach in Normandy and jump-starting the…
Touting an expanded approach of “traditional enforcement” and “intervention and prevention,” Rockford leaders held a Public Safety town hall meeting to discuss the city’s…
Fourth in a series looking at Early Intervention funding in the state In the end, numbers won out over narratives, according to Early Intervention proponents. While a $6 million…
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, applauded the Illinois Legislature’s passage of a state budget that included the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. The legislation,…
In this week’s ag news, corn planting is catching up after weather-related delays, while John Deere continues to slash jobs due to decreased demand for farm machinery. For more on…
SPRINGFIELD – A bill that would help the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation expand their newly established reservation in DeKalb County advanced out of a state House committee Tuesday,…
Two thieves created a scam they managed to keep going for more than a decade before finally being caught. Keeping it going that long doesn’t make them smart; it makes them long-term…
Medical marijuana patients can purchase cannabis grown by small businesses as part of their allotment, Illinois’ top cannabis regulator said, but smaller, newly licensed cannabis…
An Illinois law intended to help people with mental illness avoid confrontations with police had been on the books for three years when Sonya Massey was shot in Sangamon County. The…
SPRINGFIELD – Overall participation in labor unions has declined in recent years in Illinois, although the state has seen an increase in successful unionization efforts for the second…
A federal judge in Rockford has declared a state law banning concealed firearms on public transit systems unconstitutional – at least as it applies to four individuals who challenged…
The word going around is that hackers have stolen 2.9 billion Social Security numbers, which means everyone. Now it appears all that information, including other personal data, has…