Category Archives: News

(The Center Square) - In today's edition of Illinois in Focus Daily, The Center Square Editor Greg Bishop shares the reaction to violence in Chicago, including two separate shootings after a downtown ...

(The Center Square) - After a short delay to finalize staffing and safety preparations, the new Monarch Center in Lincoln is now housing youth, marking a major milestone for the long-planned juvenile ...

(The Center Square) - The number of English language proficiency violations for commercial drivers in Illinois year-to-date has nearly eclipsed last year's totals with nearly 1 in 5 having CDL's comin...

(The Center Square) - Florida welcomes a new taxpayer about every two minutes while California loses one about every minute, according to new data. An analysis of data from the IRS conducted by the Na...

(The Center Square) - California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined 21 other state attorneys general in sending a letter this week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, pushing back against guidance o...

(The Center Square) - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is suggesting he would be open to amending the state's SAFE-T Act after a man with a long criminal history was charged with setting a Chicago train pa...

Small business grants announced Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity have announced nearly $10 million in state taxpayer funding for 47 small businesses ...

This Thanksgiving, Normal Police Department is joining the Illinois State Police and local partners to keep holiday travel safe. Our "Click It or Ticket" and "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" enforceme...

Following the attack on a CTA train that left a woman badly burned and in critical condition, attention has turned to addressing the question of how her attacker, a mentally ill and violent man who ha...

(The Center Square) - A "mystery surcharge" at the pump costs Californians millions of dollars a year, according to a new report from the state Division of Petroleum Market Oversight. It's part of the...