Category Archives: Local News

New Minimum Wage Rates Set to Take Effect on New Year’s Day
For Immediate Release - December 15, 2020 New Minimum Wage Rates Set to Take Effect on New Year's Day SPRINGFIELD - Illinoisans will ring in the New Year with an additional increase in the minimum wag...
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020

Public Health Officials Announce 7,359 New Cases of Coronavirus Disease
For Immediate Release - December 15, 2020 Public Health Officials Announce 7,359 New Cases of Coronavirus Disease SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 7,359 new...
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020

National Weather Service Issues Hazardous Weather Outlook
1155 AM CST Tue Dec 15 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Illinois, east central Illinois and southeast Illinois including Champaign-Christian-Clark-Clay-Coles-Crawford-Cum...
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020

Card’s Appliance Donates to SBL Regional Cancer Center
For Immediate Release - December 14, 2020 Card's Appliance Donates to SBL Regional Cancer Center Chuck Card, owner of Card's Appliance, recently donated $1,000 to the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Foundat...
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020 Left to Right: Chuck Card, owner of Card’s Appliance and Cody Edwards, Regional Cancer Center supervisor. Photo submitted by Sarah Bush Lincoln.

Illinois Democrats End Legislative Investigation Into Speaker Madigan
Illinois Democrats End Legislative Investigation Into Speaker Madigan (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois lawmakers are no longer looking into House Speaker Mike Madigan and his insider dealings with ComEd....
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020

Monthly Premiums Drop For IL Marketplace Coverage
Monthly Premiums Drop For IL Marketplace Coverage (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois residents getting health insurance off of the state's online marketplace can expect to pay less for the third year in a ...
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020

Horizon Health Announces Holiday Closures
For Immediate Release - December 15, 2020 Horizon Health Announces Holiday Closures (Paris, Ill.)-Horizon Health announces the following clinic closures in observance of Christmas and New Year's: Thur...
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020

The United Way Conducts Thanks & Giving Raffle and Live Auction
For Immediate Release - December 15, 2020 The United Way Conducts Thanks & Giving Raffle and Live Auction United Way of Effingham County recently held the 2020 Thanks & Giving Community Raffle...
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020

First National Bank Donates to SBL Peace Meal
First National Bank Donates to SBL Peace Meal The First National Bank, through a partnership with the Federal Home Loan Bank Targeted Impact Fund, recently donated $5,000 to the Sarah Bush Lincoln Pea...
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020 Pictured are Tracy Albin, First National Bank Senior Vice President-CFO, Amy Card, Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Foundation Director, and Emily Strader, First National Bank Vice President-Retail Services CSR. Photo submitted by Sarah Bush Lincoln.

Congresswoman-elect Miller Supports Texas Lawsuit
For Release - Friday, December 11, 2020 Oakland, IL -Mary Miller, Congresswoman-elect (IL-15), joins the Texas Attorney General and 18 other State Attorney Generals, several elected officials in the s...
Renee Fonner Dec 15, 2020 Mary Miller, Republican candidate for Congress, visited President Donald Trump in the White House. Photo submitted by Mary Miller for Congress.


