The loss of any service member in the armed forces is a tragedy. When a service member dies in a combat zone, their remains are either...
Lincoln Magnet School teacher Layne Zimmers will be giving a presentation on her experience in the Galápagos Islands as a National Geographic and Lindblad Grosvenor Fellow...
More people visited Illinois last year than ever before, a record that state officials said helped boost the state’s economy and create jobs. State tourism numbers...
Hundreds of sites in Illinois are being made more business friendly thanks to new “Opportunity Zones.” 372 sites across Illinois were selected to receive special tax...
Faculty members at Southern Illinois University’s Edwardsville campus aren’t making any demands, but they are making the case for equality in the SIU system. Southern Illinois...
The 2018 Farm Bill was dealt a blow today with the House voting against it 198-213. No Democrats supported the bill, which called for new work...
The Illinois Legislature has declared May 17th DIPG Awareness Day. Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, or DIPG, is a rare brain cancer that strikes children. Overall the fight...
Last December, the FCC voted to being rolling back the Net Neutrality protections. Today, the Senate voted 52-47 to restore the old Net Neutrality rules. The...
Authorizing spending is one of the chief powers of the legislature. The so called “power of the purse” lets Congress appropriate money to be spent by...
Small businesses across the country are optimistic about the economy, but one expert says there could be dark clouds building in Illinois. The new Small Business...
Democratic candidate Betsy Dirksen Londrigan picked up another endorsement. Speaking at the Springfield Mel-O-Cream Donuts shop, Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-17) endorsed the Democratic challenger in...
PRESS RELEASE | U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today released this statement on the introduction of H.R. 5688, the Navigation Workers Protection Act, a bill to clarify that...
