After heading into the locker room tied, Illinois Wesleyan’s three-point fire power helped the No. 24 Titans (14-3, 7-1) push past the Pioneers of Carroll 5-12, 1-7) 82-70 in a College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin game at Van Male Fieldhouse. … MORE
Obituaries for Tom Bounds and Ramona Spears… MORE
Obituaries for Merlin Eash, Myron Erdman, Shirley Mae Herron and Arden Osborne
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Obituaries for Doug Christiansen, Helen Collins and Micheal Lynn Sharp
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Obituaries for Herman Harms and Harlan Wessels
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Obituaries for James Koch, Marian Shepherd, Virginia Sutherland.… MORE
Obituaries for Gary Bell, Rita Gesell and Amanda Tanner
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Obituary for Bernice Edwards
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Obituaries for George Bohm, Dorothy Johnson, Marilynn Sancken.… MORE
Jeannette M. Robbins, 85 of East Bissell Street, Bloomington. She passed away on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at Heartland Health Care, Normal.… 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…