Ever been bullied? I have. A long time ago. Still haunts me.
Just as our elected state government officials — all of them — were failing us again this week on fundamental matters of a budget, the Clinton nuclear power plant quietly and efficiently went back online. In fact, workers set a U.S. record for a boiling water reactor, needing only 11 days to…
A valedictory feeling filled the air Thursday when Ed Rust Jr. addressed an overflow crowd of State Farm retirees at the DoubleTree.
Every small town has its patriots. Minonk has its own band of brothers. Seven sons of Michael and Sara Petri were in uniform at the same time during World War II.
I’m having a hard time understanding the fuss about Donald Trump adding his name (his “brand,” he says) to his architecturally brilliant skyscraper in downtown Chicago.
We buried my father this week. If you’ve had the same experience, you understand why I want to tell you about my dad. There’s some rationale for the “telling” appearing right here. You see, he was a writer of letters to the editor. Some of them appeared on this page.
People were polite as they entered U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood’s town hall meeting this week, perhaps surprised to find the tall rookie congressman greeting each of them at the door of the Tazewell County event. Many told him they appreciated the chance to listen and be heard.
Ever been bullied? I have. A long time ago. Still haunts me.
If you’ve been on the business end of an MRI or CT-scan, you understand the gravity of what I’m about to implore: Technologists should never, ever shake their heads, divert their eyes, furrow their brows, click their tongues, wiggle their noses or, as was the case in my instance, wish the pa…
I should have dug a little deeper last August when I asked state lottery officials about how often big winning tickets are sold but never cashed. The data were available for “draw games” (like the daily jackpot), but not for “instant games” (the “scratchers”). Why was that?
Driving south (way south) on Interstate 55 one day last week, we stopped for lunch about a hundred miles north of New Orleans, determined to find a home-grown restaurant.
Normal Mayor Chris Koos probably wishes the Illinois attorney general’s office had waited just a few more days to respond to a months-old request for an opinion about the town’s rules governing public comment at council meetings.
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Emergency crews near Clark Street Beach in Evanston, north of Chicago, continued searching Saturday evening for a missing swimmer presumed dead in the waters of Lake Michigan.
Lesli Jett was portrayed as a selfish drug abuser who didn't like being at the East Peoria home with Tate Thurman. The boy had multiple bruises and abrasions when he died in 2020.
The campus is about 40 acres, and includes 18 major buildings, seven parking lots, a parking deck and a football and soccer field with bleachers.
State’s Attorney Dan Markwell said formal charges are pending the filing of reports by the various law enforcement agencies involved in the case.
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An arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 8.
An arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 8.
Illinois video gaming terminals generated nearly $2 billion in revenue in the fiscal year that ended June 30.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a change like no other during Circuit Judge Paul Lawrence’s 19 years on the bench, he told a joint meeting of the local Daughters of the American Revolution and Sons of the American Revolution on Friday.
Jay Tetzloff, director of both the Bloomington Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department and the Miller Park Zoo, will now serve as superintendent of the zoo, the city announced Friday.
Illinois' new energy law sets end dates for fossil-fuel power plants, but fails to address the state’s biggest source of climate-changing pollution: coal mining.