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McLean County news briefs
June 12, 2019

BLOOMINGTON LINK match coupon program at Farmers Market The Downtown Bloomington Farmers’ Market, through a grant received from LINK Up Illinois, began distributing and redeeming…
Tazewell County news briefs
June 12, 2019

PEKIN City invites all downtown for street party The city of Pekin is celebrating the official start of summer with a Downtown Street Party on Friday and Saturday, June 21 and 22….
Aurora’s Roosevelt Legion Post 84 observes a pair of centennials
June 12, 2019

Aurora’s American Legion Post No. 84 hosted a double birthday party last week. The longtime veterans’ group observed the national organization’s 100th birthday with a low-key…
Woodford County news briefs
June 12, 2019

EUREKA Library, 4-H invite youth to interactive workshop Youth entering fifth through seventh grades are invited to join University of Illinois Extension 4-H Youth Development Educator…
Leavitt: Some people think the best workers are the oldest
June 12, 2019

We’ve been hearing for decades that the baby boomer generation gets all the breaks because they have money and they vote and they generally call the shots. That’s all over now….
Clemente Academy Chicago grad keeps sights on helping others
June 11, 2019

Luis Hernandez is the “nice quiet kid” at Chicago’s Clemente Academy who is involved in a ton of activities and is hard to stop once he sets his mind to something. He has been…
Fifty years later, new book looks back on Cubs’ fateful ’69 season
June 11, 2019

How does a team with four future Hall of Famers, a Hall of Fame manager, two 20-game winners and a 10-game lead in mid-August not win the World Series, let alone its division? That…
Cook County, Chicago archdiocese bury indigent
June 10, 2019

Jan Brown placed a flower on the caskets holding the remains that others forgot at Mount Olivet Cemetery on Chicago’s Southwest Side. Brown, a teacher at Mother McAuley High School,…

Illinois Republican lawmaker to introduce death penalty bill

August 18, 2019

SPRINGFIELD — A Republican state lawmaker is calling for the resurrection of the death penalty in Illinois after two mass shootings in the U.S. and recent gun violence in Chicago….

Pritzker touts expanded coverage of EpiPens, Lyme disease treatment

August 17, 2019

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill expanding insurance coverage for Illinoisans suffering from Lyme disease and discussed other health-related measures at a news conference…

USDA cuts forecast for Illinois crop production

August 17, 2019

SPRINGFIELD — This year’s Illinois corn crop could be as much as 17 percent smaller than last year’s crop, while soybean production could fall as much as 21 percent, the U.S….

Pritzker signs bills expanding state’s medical marijuana law

August 16, 2019

SPRINGFIELD — Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker celebrated a pair of new laws Aug. 12 that expand the state’s medical marijuana program, including one that gives students more options…

Concerns raised over gas-tax expenditures

August 15, 2019

(Second in a series of stories looking at the pork-barrel extras included in the state gas tax hike of 19 cents per gallon) Along with fixing roads, bridges and crumbling public structures,…

U.S. House Speaker Pelosi cites Illinois as example for national Dems

August 15, 2019

SPRINGFIELD — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rallied Illinois Democrats on Wednesday, Aug. 14, issuing a call for party unity and citing the state party’s recent legislative successes…

McLean County news briefs

Tazewell County news briefs

Aurora’s Roosevelt Legion Post 84 observes a pair of centennials

Woodford County news briefs

Leavitt: Some people think the best workers are the oldest

Clemente Academy Chicago grad keeps sights on helping others

Fifty years later, new book looks back on Cubs’ fateful ’69 season

Cook County, Chicago archdiocese bury indigent

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