By WMBD-TV SPRINGFIELD – Students across Illinois may start learning new relaxation techniques in the classroom to lower their stress levels. A bill moving in the state capitol aims to lower students’ stress by encouraging school districts to have at least 20 minutes of instruction on relaxation activities each week. Suggested activities in the bill include mindful-based…… MORE
Seeing her dead daughter on a metal table was not the worst thing that’s happened to Elizabeth French.… MORE
Something new – or, rather, something more than 160 years old – will be on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.… MORE
A bird in Douglas County has tested positive West Nile virus, making it the first positive case in Illinois this year.… MORE
Perhaps a couple hundred orange-shirted demonstrators cheered, chanted, and heard from lawmakers that included State Sen. Lakesia Collins (D-Chicago).… MORE
A proposed Chicago Bears stadium could be a long shot without the backing of Governor Pritzker and Springfield leaders. … MORE
The annual march from Springfield BOS Center to the Capitol was more than 1,000 strong – to show support of the Second Amendment.… MORE
Anti-Semitism is not just going up in Illinois – it’s going up and up, according to the organization which keeps track.… MORE
Alexandra Burgos lives on through her parents’ work. Rafael and Milagros Burgos attended a Moms Demand Action rally on the Capitol steps in Springfield Tuesday. … MORE
As Gov. JB Pritzker has proposed to eliminate the state’s sales tax on groceries, a new University of Illinois study suggests the idea hurts cities more than it helps families.… 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…