Category Archives: News
Local Youth Convicted in Stabbing Case
A 16-year-old Bloomington youth was convicted Thursday of aggravated battery in a stabbing back in November at Anderson Park in Normal. The verdict comes despite the 17-year-old male victim denying th...
Mar 22, 2019 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Drug Store Chain CVS To Sell Cannabis Products In Eight States
CVS Pharmacy is planning to sell cannabis-based products in eight states. The hemp-derived CBD products will be available in 8 states including Illinois. The company won't sell any CBD supplements or ...
Mar 22, 2019 Mike Mozart / CC
Illinois Unemployment Rate Remains at 4.3 Percent
Three-Month Average Jobs Up in February CHICAGO-The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced today that the unemployment rate was 4.3 percent in February, unchanged since November 2...
Mar 21, 2019
Illinois Supreme Court Decides Not to Hear Challenge to Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Law
The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to hear an appeal seeking to overturn a law passed last year which uses taxpayer money to fund abortions. Springfield Right to Life sued the Illinois D...
Mar 21, 2019 Blogtrepreneur / CC
City of Bloomington Has Been Underbilling Business Fire Protection Fees for a Decade
The city of Bloomington has been incorrectly billing businesses for fire protection for nearly 10 years, resulting perhaps in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, according to the ...
Mar 21, 2019
Catholics Across Illinois React To Latest Abuse Report, Full List Released
Catholics across the state are looking at the latest list of priests accused of abuse to see if they know any of the names. Lawyers for victims of priest abuse released a list yesterday with nearly 40...
Mar 21, 2019 Thomas Quine / CC
Poll: Half Of Downstate Voters Disapprove Of Governor Pritzker
Half of the voters outside of Chicago and the collar counties don't like the job that Governor JB Pritzker is doing. A new poll released yesterday by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute says 50 per...
Mar 21, 2019
Illinois Pro-Life Rally Turnout So Large, Participants Turned Away From State Capitol
The Illinois Pro-Life rally held on March 20 had a bigger turnout than anyone expected. So many people showed up to the Illinois State Capitol that the first floor reached maximum capacity and people ...
Mar 21, 2019
Brown Pleads "Not Guilty" in Fatal Shooting of Deputy
39-year old Floyd Brown of Springfield pleaded not guilty in Rockford Wednesday to federal charges accusing him of fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy who was part of a U.S. Marshal's fugitive task fo...
Mar 20, 2019
Fiscal Watchdog: Pritzker's Progressive Tax Doesn't Add Up
A fiscal watchdog in Chicago says they can't get Governor JB Pritzker's progressive income tax to add up. The Civic Federation yesterday issued a report that says they can't replicate the math and get...
Mar 20, 2019
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