Category Archives: Local News

Governor Bruce Rauner signed SB 2059 today and issued the following statement: "This legislation doesn't solve our budget crisis or help our economy grow, but it does represent a first step toward com...

Students and families in Illinois are facing significant challenges as the state's now ten month budget delay has held up funding for higher education, including most funding for the Monetary Award Pr...

The Illinois Department of Transportation District 7 announces that repairs to the Union Pacific Railroad Crossing on IL 33 near Beecher City in Effingham County will take place next week. Beginning o...

President Glassman sent the following message to faculty, staff and students yesterday. Dear University Community, I am pleased to report that a few hours ago, Governor Bruce Rauner signed SB2059 into...

  Join us for a movie based on Nicholas Sparks' 2007 novel, The Choice, about two neighbors who fall in love at their first meeting and are tested by life's most defining events. Feel free to bri...

Calling all Laker Fans - join us for the first-ever Laker Academic Awards Gala. Hosted by the Lake Land College Athletic Leadership Council, the gala will be held on Sunday, May 1 in the Field House w...

The WHAT community group will hold its spring plant sale this Friday and Saturday (April 29 & 30) in Windsor. They'll have a wide variety of annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, herbs, combinatio...

The City of Mattoon, Public Works Department, will begin flushing fire hydrants Monday, May 2, 2016 and continue until all lines are flushed. Flushing will be conducted weekdays between 7:00 a.m. and ...

The Mattoon Public Library is receiving a $35-thousand dollar grant to help replace the leaking roof. The grant is called the Live & Learn Construction Grant grant from the office of Illinois Secr...

Solitary confinement is a technique that may see less usage in Illinois prisons under a bill that was approved in committee last week. The bill, sponsored by State Representative La Shawn Ford of Chic...