Category Archives: News
Governor Pritzker Releases Progressive Tax Brackets
If you make less than 250 thousand-dollars a year, your tax bill will either go down or stay flat under Governor JB Pritzker's progressive tax. If you make over a million-dollars a year, your tax bill...
Mar 08, 2019
Teacher Minimum Salary Plan Moves Ahead At Statehouse
The plan to pay teachers in Illinois at least 40 thousand-dollars-a-year is slowly making its way back to the governor's desk. A Senate panel approved the idea Wednesday. Supporters say the pay raise ...
Mar 08, 2019
Alma Otter Creators: We Were Joking Around
The University of Illinois' next mascot could be a joke. The students who created the Alma Otter mascot say there were just kidding around, but now they say students have come to support their creatio...
Mar 08, 2019
Don't Forget Your Smoke Detector Batteries This Time Change WeekendÂ
Add some batteries to your shopping list this weekend. The Illinois State Fire Marshal is reminding folks to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when we spring forward early Sunday morning. ...
Mar 08, 2019
Hotel Shooting Suspect Barricaded In Car in Central Illinois, Slain Officer Identified
The man wanted in connection with a police shooting at a Rockford, Illinois hotel this morning is surrounded by cops in the central part of the state. John Pozzi, Deputy Chief in the Rockford Police D...
Mar 07, 2019
BREAKING NEWS: UPDATE
Bloomington Police are looking for an armed man who is a suspect in a shooting of a U.S. Marshell in Rockford. According to Rockford Police Lt. Andre Brass, the man is believed to be driving a light b...
Mar 07, 2019
Illinois' Plastic Bag Tax Unanimously Moves Ahead
You may want to go buy some reusable bags now. An Illinois Senate panel yesterday unanimously approved a seven cent tax on plastic shopping bags. Five cents of the tax would go to the state, another t...
Mar 07, 2019
$5.8M Truck Stop to be Built in Atlanta, IL
The Atlanta City Council approved the $5.8 million truck stop project Tuesday night. When completed, the full-service facility for truck drivers and vehicles, a convenience store, a Dairy Queen restau...
Mar 07, 2019
Illinois State Police To Crackdown On Revoked FOID Cards
The Illinois State Police are getting tougher on people who've lost their FOID cards and need to give-up their guns. State Police Director Brendan Kelly says Troopers will work with local sheriffs and...
Mar 07, 2019
Former Congressman Schock: I Was Targeted
Former west-central Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock says he's happy that federal prosecutors dropped corruption charges against him, but he says the case did its damage. Schock told reporters in Chi...
Mar 07, 2019
