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Illinois Treasurer Mike Frerichs has added new components to his office’s unclaimed property program. (WJBC file photo)   By Dave Dahl If it's too much work to get your own money back, ther...

Tucked away in one of Illinois' 2019 budget bills was a requirement that out-of-state businesses selling Illinoisans goods will have to tack a 6-and-a quarter percent sales tax on to purchases startin...

State Sen. Andy Manar (D-Bunker Hill, left) and State Rep. Christian Mitchell (D-Chicago) are pushing for the legislature to override Gov. Rauner’s veto of a bill requiring a minimum salary for ...

The District 87 School Board Wednesday night will vote on a budget for the next fiscal year that includes a structural deficit in the education fund of nearly $2 million. (File photo by Patrick Baron/...

Bloomington city inspectors found hundreds of housing code violations at a 12-unit apartment building on Gettysburg Drive just 11 days before a fire caused an estimated $650,000 damage to the building...

  Students are big culprits of food waste (PHOTO Pixabay)   By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD- As Americans, we waste up to a third of the food we buy. New research shows that problem is particularly...

Incumbent Republican Rodney Davis said Democratic challenger Betsy Dirksen Londrigan has shown once again she is willing to bend the truth. (WJBC file photo)   By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Th...

Illinois State University History Professor Emeritus Mark Wyman (far right) wrote the inscription on the historical marker describing segregated beaches at Miller Park. He also participated in the cer...

Jon and Kimberly Wade, have raised more than $500,000 through the Kids Shouldn't Have Cancer Foundation. (www.kidsshouldnthavecancer.org)   By Dave Dahl Jonny Wade was an outgoing kid, smart enou...

13 members from Illinois Task Force One are in the Carolina’s to help with the Florence damage. (Pixaby)   By Dave Dahl Report from North Carolina – a firefighter / paramedic from Nap...