A federal judge said the Illinois Department of Corrections has failed to meet the needs of mentally ill prison inmates.
Politics
Advocates: Bloomington far from welcoming for disabled residents
Bloomington is a long way from being a welcoming place for disabled residents to get around, according to advocates attending a mayor’s open house Friday at city hall.
Illinois State Redbirds
Redbirds playoff hopes diminish with loss to Indiana State
A 21-point second-quarter output for Indiana State (6-4, 4-3 MVFC) erased a 10-point first quarter lead for Illinois State (5-5, 2-5 MVFC) and the Redbirds fell by a final score of 28-23 to the Sycamores in front of 4,016 fans on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.
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Ketamine Therapy helping veterans battle PTSD
Chris Watts’ parents break their silence after son’s guilty plea in murder of wife, daughters
Ketamine Therapy helping veterans battle PTSD
Maryland to argue Rosenstein, not Whitaker, should be acting attorney general
Trump issues delayed broadside against Macron
Here’s the real reason Martha McSally conceded the Arizona Senate race before all the votes were counted
Voices
WJBC Voices: Mutual buyer’s remorse?
Buyer’s remorse applies to politics as well as consumer transactions. Possible application: Governor-elect J.B. “No Neck” Pritzker.
WJBC Voices: The safe, legal and rare fraud
At one time, Hillary Clinton’s mantra about abortion was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” I suspected then that she really meant only the “legal” part, and time has borne out that suspicion.
WJBC Voices: Rauner’s Toyota claim a misleading, false promise
On September 27, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner told the Pantagraph that Bloomington-Normal was in serious contention for a Mazda-Toyota auto plant, but the existence of unions and Illinois laws lost the potential jobs to Alabama.
WJBC Voices: “Progressive” has nothing to do with progress
One of the gubernatorial candidates is advocating a progressive income tax as the solution to the state’s economic problems.