Category Archives: News
REPORT: BLM Blono At Odds with Post by McLean Co. Democrats Over Defunding Police
Black Lives Matter Blono is at odds with the McLean County Democrats over a social media post that called for reframing the "Defund The Police" debate away from the word defund. According to published...
Jun 17, 2020
Pritzker says administration sent COVID-19 patients from hospitals back to nursing homes ‘after they recovered’
(The Center Square) - With more than half of Illinois' COVID-19 deaths from nursing homes, totaling around 3,400, at least one person is calling for an investigation into how Gov. J.B. Pritzker's admi...
Jun 17, 2020
Pritzker announces $900 million community, business grant programs
(The Center Square) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday announced a $900 million package of state grant programs to support communities and small businesses impacted by the pandemic and civil unrest. Th...
Jun 17, 2020
Effort to Remove George Washington Statue in Illinois
A more than 100-year-old statue of the nation's first president, George Washington, was covered in graffiti in Chicago. Messages were written out in red spray paint that read "slave owner" and "burn d...
Jun 17, 2020
McLean Co. COVID-19 Update 6-17-20: One New Case
One New Case Again Today.....
Jun 17, 2020
More Than Just a Gas Tax Hike Coming in July
Illinois residents will soon be facing new or higher taxes and fees on gas, vehicle registrations, parking, marijuana, gambling, online shopping and more following actions at the Statehouse. In total,...
Jun 17, 2020
Local election officials prepare for vote by mail expansion
(The Center Square) - Illinoisans who cast ballots in elections since 2018 will automatically be sent an application for a vote-by-mail ballot for the November election, and it's gonna cost county cle...
Jun 17, 2020
Court sides with Pritzker on religious gathering restrictions
(The Center Square) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker scored a win in federal court after a panel of judges ruled his 10-person cap on religious gatherings was constitutional. A panel of Seventh Circuit Appellate ...
Jun 17, 2020
Quick hits: Illinois news in brief for Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Pritzker's allows Jacobson back after booting her from news conferences Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his press secretary backed down in the face of a legal challenge from a Chicago-area broadcaster after ba...
Jun 17, 2020
70.2% of Illinois residents express degree of trust in state’s virus policies
(The Center Square) - The share of Illinois residents who say they have some or a lot of trust in the state's handling of the coronavirus pandemic was 70.2 percent, according to a new study by Northwe...
Jun 17, 2020
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