Champion Fields in Normal will again host national championship softball.… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2017
Bloomington-Normal unemployment remains lowest in state
Unemployment in September dropped throughout the entire state, with Bloomington-Normal reporting the lowest jobless rate among the state’s metropolitan areas.… MORE
Ireland Grove Rd. closing for water service work
BLOOMINGTON – Effective Friday, Oct. 27, 2017, Ireland Grove Road between the Frontage Road Entrance to Mercer Ave. will be closed to thru traffic for contractor water service work. Residents should choose an alternate route during this time period. … MORE
Sports On Air
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NWS predicts wet winter
Illinois could be in store for a wet winter this year.… MORE
DCFS cuts back on privatizing program after rise in child deaths
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is rebooting its privatized child welfare program.… MORE
Uptown road closures planned for Treat Feast
Uptown Normal’s annual Treat Feast on Monday offers families a chance to bring out their spooky little ghosts and ghouls for a night of safe and fun trick or treating with Uptown’s many businesses… MORE
Obituaries: Benson
Obituary for Helen Benson
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Rauner suffers many override votes in House Wednesday
By the time veto session wrapped up in the House Wednesday, representatives overrode 11 of the governor’s vetoes.… MORE
IWU football ‘two heartbeats’ from CCIW glory
Illinois Wesleyan football coach Norm Eash said his team is well aware it controls its own destiny for a College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin championship with two games left.… MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…