By Katherine Murphy
Gas prices have fallen 1.6 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.29 per gallon today.
GasBuddy.com’s daily survey shows prices in Illinois are 6.9 cents per gallon higher than a month ago but are sitting 64.5 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.
Last year at this time – gas was $2.94 per gallon – in 2017 the price was $2.24 and in 2011 we were digging deep into our pockets and paying, on average, $3.81 for a gallon of gas.
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.” …
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…
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…
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…