Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release Shimkus Reacts to State of the Union Address WASHINGTON - Congressman John Shimkus (R, Illinois-15) released the following statement in reaction to President Donald Trump's State...

Pritzker Memo Lays Out Plan To Hike Illinois Minimum Wage (Springfield, IL) -- The current plan to raise Illinois' minimum wage to 15 dollars-an-hour would start next year. The Chicago Tribune is repo...

Illinois Anti-Smoking Advocates: 2019 Is The Year For Tobacco 21 (Springfield, IL) -- The latest version of the plan to raise the age to buy cigarettes or other tobacco products is already moving at t...

Illinois' Most Googled Relationship Question: I Cheated (Chicago, IL) -- This is not the news that a lot of people want to hear before Valentine's Day. The research firm CenturyLinkQuote this week sai...

Decatur Police: Man Keyed Child's Face (Decatur, IL) -- A Decatur man says he was trying to discipline a three-year-old boy. Police say he dug a key into the little boy's face. Decatur Police arrested...

The Jasper County Junior High and 5th and 6th grade bands will be selling porkburgers from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on March 5th in the high school parking lot. Burgers are $3.00 each, and they'll also...

The Flood Warning continues for the following river in Illinois: Embarras River at Lawrenceville affecting Lawrence County The following forecasts are based on observed precipitation, soil moisture co...

Northern, Western Illinois Starts Day Under Ice Warning (Davenport, IA) -- It's going to be a slick start to the day for a lot of folks across northern and western Illinois. The National Weather Servi...

Illinois Senate Looks To Set Starting Teacher Pay (Springfield, IL) -- The latest plan to set a minimum wage for new teachers in Illinois includes a ramp. An Illinois Senate panel yesterday approved a...

Illinois' Congressional Delegation Split On State Of The Union (Washington, DC) -- The deciding factor into how Illinois' people in Congress view President Trump's State of the Union speech seems to b...