Category Archives: State News
Speaker Madigan: “I plan to be a candidate for speaker”
House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago). (Photo courtesy: WikiMedia/Illinoislawmakers)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – To cap off a week in which more than a dozen House Democrats have gone away from Ho...
Nov 23, 2020
Durkin: Time for Madigan to go
House Speaker Michael Madigan. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – If House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) is listening, Illinois Republicans have a message for him — ...
Nov 19, 2020
More than a dozen lawmakers don’t support Madigan as speaker
House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago). (Photo courtesy: WikiMedia/Illinoislawmakers) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – By an informal count, Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) would not have the sixty votes nee...
Nov 19, 2020
Time for a reminder – winter driving skills
Brian Mendenhall, a highway maintainer with the Illinois Department of Transportation, says you should stay away from snow plows. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – It's almost...
Nov 18, 2020
Gov. Pritzker announces new COVID-19 mitigations
Gov. Pritzker announced new COVID-19 mitigations on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker says the best way to avoid a stay-at-home order is to act as if...
Nov 17, 2020
Harvest 2020: Corn and soybeans all but complete
Mark Schleusener, state statistician, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, says Illinois’ corn harvest is all but complete. (Photo courtesy: Flickr) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Th...
Nov 17, 2020
Former Gov. Edgar reflects on Illinois fiscal trouble Gov. Pritzker faces
Former Gov. Jim Edgar, announcing a new statesmanship award to be given by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, says statesmen solve problems, even when it makes peo...
Nov 16, 2020
Illinois driver services facilities will temporarily close due to COVID
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White. (Faecbook/Jesse White) By Neil Doyle CHICAGO – Driver services facilities across Illinois will be closed for a few weeks due to COVID-19. As a pre...
Nov 13, 2020
IDPH reports 15,415 new cases of COVID; Record one-day testing
Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported 106,540 tests, a new single-day high, for a total 8,871,640. (Facebook/Reditus Laboratories) By Neil Doyle SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois ...
Nov 13, 2020
Sen. Durbin: Republicans want “to do away” with Obamacare with no plan in place
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Those who had to buy their own health insurance before the Affordable Care Act became law are recalling the bad o...
Nov 13, 2020
