Category Archives: News

Illinois isn't getting too bad of grades for health care.  Financial site WalletHub ranked the states with the best and worst health care in the nation, and Illinois came in 17th best.  The ...

Well, sorta. However Illinois is now home to the unexpected guests...armadillos. A new study at Southern Illinois University is investigating the curious case.One species, the nine banded armadillo, i...

Illinois State University is seeing a boost in enrollment.  Officials say the fall 2016 freshman class has over 36-hundred students, which is a one-point-five-percent increase over last year. &nb...

There should be plenty of pumpkins for pies, jack-o-lanterns, and chuckin' this year. Illinois agriculture officials say the state's pumpkin crop is looking good. Illinois is one of the national leade...

Illinois lawmakers have til December to agree on a clean energy package if they want to save Exelon's nuclear power plants in the Quad Cities and Clinton. Legislative leaders were in Cordova yesterday...

A two-vehicle accident near Pontiac has claimed the lives of two area teenagers. The deceased were identified Tuesday by the Livingston and Peoria County coroners as Jose Carlos Baeza-Padilla, 17, of ...

A federal lawsuit has raised questions about whether Illinois's new Election Day voter registration rules are constitutional, a situation that could complicate how polling sites are run this November....

One Illinois lawmaker wants to take some of the financial incentive out of public crimes.  State Representative David McSweeney is proposing a ban on pension benefits for a spouse connected to a ...

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner spent his Labor Day marching in one of Illinois' most affluent, white-collar cities.  Rauner walked in the parade in Naperville.  Many in the crowd agreed with...

Hillary Clinton told the union-friendly crowd in the Quad Cities for Labor Day that no one brings people together like labor unions.  Mrs. Clinton was in town for the annual Salute to Labor in Ha...