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John Deere is making a big move in Iowa, bringing back hundreds of workers and hiring even more.
The movement to separate parts of Illinois from the state continues to grow, with voters in 12 more downstate counties approving non-binding secession referendums in the November election. That brings the total to 45 counties, plus several townships within Adams County, that have approved the measures since 2020. Woman behind...
Some of the best mornings start with a plain little building you almost drive right past. You walk in hungry, grab a booth, and suddenly the bacon, biscuits, and coffee turn an ordinary trip into a story you keep telling. Southern Illinois is full of these quiet breakfast spots, tucked...
"Expanding our existing nuclear facilities is exactly the kind of investment we need."
Polls closed in Illinois at 7 p.m., and many voters weren’t even home yet when the Associated Press called the state’s two biggest races. By Wednesday morning, Democrats had won both chambers of Congress and nearly every major contest in Illinois. People are calling it a blue wave,...
ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Governor Pritzker is urging his Congressional Democrats to hit the ground running when they return to Washington. He is calling on the party to use its newly won control of the House and Senate to advance an aggressive legislative agenda looking to counter changes made by the Trump administration and his previous […]
A World BEYOND War forum urged young voters to link climate, militarism and racism activism as speakers called for continued pressure after the election.
PEORIA (25News Now) - Former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich says the Republican Party in Illinois must rethink its political identity and strengthen its appeal to working-class voters following another round of statewide election losses Tuesday. In a one-on-one interview with 25News on Wednesday, Blagojevich, a Democrat who has become...
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (KBSI) — Several Southern Illinois schools have earned the state’s highest overall designation on the 2026 Illinois Report Card. Carterville High School, Tri-C Elementary School, Giant City School and Vienna High School were among the schools receiving an Exemplary designation. The report cards, released Oct. 30,...
Voters in Illinois decide whether or not to separate from Cook County and form a new state
Events going on in and around Jacksonville during the week ahead.
The state of Illinois received approval for 240 tracts of land to be included in the Opportunity Zone 2.0 federal program.
A federal grand jury in July indicted Illinois state Rep. Carol Ammons, D-Urbana, and her husband, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons, on felony charges that include wire fraud, making false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Both have pleaded not guilty. As of Nov. 4, 2026, Carol and Aaron Ammons...
Households in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana that fall behind on gas or electric bills get a stretch of winter in which the utility generally cannot cut service, but each state draws the line in a different place. The Kansas and Missouri protections run from Nov. 1 through March 31, Illinois from Dec. 1 through... The post Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana bar winter utility shutoffs for many behind-on-bills households under cold-weather rules that run into March appeared first on The Financial Wire .
Bald eagles in winter care about one thing above almost anything else: open water. Below the big locks and dams on the Mississippi, churning water often refuses to freeze, and fish get stunned or pushed to the surface. That turns those spots into all-you-can-eat buffets for our national bird. Illinois...
Under SB 2427, signed July 28, 2026, Illinois districts must limit student phone access from first bell to final bell by 2027-28, with exceptions for medical needs and IEPs.
Republicans across Illinois are coming to terms with Democrats' sweeping blue wave as party leaders assess recent election results and their path forward.
Illinois Republicans are licking their wounds after getting drubbed in the midterms, a defeat many GOP donors apparently saw coming long before Election Day. Why it matters: The party that once dominated Illinois politics is struggling not only to win elections but also to attract the wealthy donors who once bankrolled its campaigns. Case in point: Conservative megadonor Richard Uihlein, who poured more than $50 million into Republican Darren Bailey's 2022 campaign and an allied political action committee, contributed just $6,900 directly to Bailey this time around. By the numbers: Bailey entered the final month of his unsuccessful campaign against Gov. JB Pritzker with about $432,000 in the bank, compared with Pritzker's $44.4 million. That's not a typo. That's a nearly $44 million difference. Bailey raised about $1.2 million in the third quarter, while Pritzker spent nearly $24 million during the same period. The big picture: Longtime Republican pollster Rod McCulloch says the party's traditional donors have grown weary of pouring millions into losing campaigns. "The donor class of the Republican Party decided some time ago that Illinois was a lost cause," McCulloch said on the "Crisis Cast" podcast. He pointed to major Republican investments in Richard Irvin's unsuccessful 2022
Illinois house Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch is fighting to keep his Illinois House Speaker position after months of criticism over his handling of sexual harassment allegations and his leadership style. WJOL is reporting that 26 current and incoming Democratic lawmakers have called for new leadership in Illinois. Welch...
