Obituary for Doris Klitzing… MORE
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Obituaries: Coker
Obituary for Raymond Coker… MORE
Road in Mount Hope Township to close
The McLean County Highway Department reports 100 East Road between 550 North Road and the Olympia school property southern border will be closed to through traffic starting July 11 through Sept. 16, weather permitting, for bridge replacement.… MORE
Backin’ The Birds in Hawaii
Suzi Davis Travel and WJBC are excited to share this trip with you! Get the chance to follow the Redbird Men’s Basketball team to Oahu where they will be playing in the Diamond Head Classic! Get the chance to cheer the Birds on while enjoying the paradise that is Hawaii. This incredible trip is available…… MORE
Obituaries: Nair
Obituary for Jayanthi Nair… MORE
Ron Kovic’s ongoing battle
In his second tour in Vietnam, Ron Kovic was shot and seriously wounded. The U.S. Marine was paralyzed from the chest down and shuttled through multiple hospitals before landing stateside and seeing treatment at a New York Veterans Administration Hospital. In the spinal cord injury ward of the Bronx VA Hospital, Kovic’s living nightmare got…… MORE
Obituaries: Redding
Obituary for Ilene Redding… MORE
Obituaries: Leary
Obituary for Paul Leary… MORE
Obituaries: McHugh
Obituary for Charlotte McHugh… MORE
Memorable videos of Pat Summitt
Here are some of the memorable videos of Pat Summitt throughout her career and life including a championship game win in its entirety. … MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
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.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
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…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
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…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
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…