CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – The Illinois State volleyball team took the Missouri Valley Conference’s regular-season champ and No. 1 seed to the brink Friday, but top-seeded Missouri State prevailed in five sets over the Redbirds at the McLeod Center. Missouri State won by scores of 25-20, 17-25, 25-18, 22-25, 15-9. Illinois State’s Courtney Pence set…… MORE
The Chiefs of Deer Creek-Mackinaw have waited 29 years, but a new piece of football hardware is coming back to their trophy case. … MORE
Former assistant coach Andrew McDowell takes over the coaching reigns for the University High School’s boys’ basketball team this season for Bob Fitzgerald, who is on a teaching sabbatical, but don’t expect a lot of change.… MORE
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The Illinois State volleyball team overcame a big deficit in the first set to steal momentum away from Southern Illinois and the Redbirds ran away with a 3-0 win in a quarterfinal match at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Thursday at the McLeod Center.… MORE
Tarek Baker netted the second penalty shot goal in team history and goaltender Logan Halladay turned aside 33 shots, but the Bloomington Thunder fell, 3-2, in overtime to the Dubuque Fighting Saints on Wednesday night.… MORE
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WJBC AM 1230: 6:00 p.m. – Brock Spack Show Listen live here 7:00 p.m. – Basketball – Intercity Boys Tournament Listen live here WJBC.com: 7:00 p.m. – Hockey – Bloomington Thunder at Dubuque Listen live here … MORE
Brady Rose led four Titans in double figures with 15 points as Illinois Wesleyan cruised to an 87-54 win over MacMurray at Shirk Center.… MORE
Bloomington High School’s boys basketball team returns several players from last year’s Big 12 Conference co-championship team, so sixth-year coach Micheal Mosley is expecting good things.… MORE
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…