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The NFL Draft was last week or yesterday or something. Maybe people were drafted. The only real news to come out of this was that (1) may Justin Fields’ career rest in peace as he was drafted by the Chicago Bears, and (2) only Penn State had as many first-round draft picks as lowly Northwestern. You idiots. #PennState ties #B1GCats with a second pick! NU 2 To the list of teams with more first-round draft picks than [/deep breath] Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan State, Nebraska (lo...

The balance of power in Washington will shift slightly to Republicans in the coming years.The Census Bureau released its apportionment data from the 2020 population count.This determines how many seats and Electoral College votes states get for the next decade.Six states colored in green will pick up seats: Texas will get two seats, along with one each for Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, Oregon and Montana. And seven states colored in purple will each lose one sea. That includes Californi...

Heres a roundup of key questions raised this week about redistricting. Why is Illinois talking about redistricting now? The U.S. Census Bureau released 2020 data on Monday telling each state how many of the 435 seats in Congress they will have. Every state gets at least one House seat. The rest are apportioned based on a states population. States that lose population, according to the Census, are at risk of losing seats, those that gain residents can add seats. The U.S. Supreme Court requires t...

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Southern Illinois Connector Highway Project A proposed four-lane rural expressway connecting southern Illinois to the St. Louis Metropolitan Area is getting support from Illinois U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth. Duckworth, a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, recently met virtually with southwest Illinois leaders to discuss the Southwest Illinois Connector Highway Project. Illinois junior senator says the project would help ease the bottleneck of traffic o...

Gov. JB Pritzker broke his silence on redistricting Tuesday and reiterated his desire to see a fair map, but distanced himself from past comments in support of the creation of an independent redistricting commission which Republicans are currently pushing for.  “As I’ve said, I will veto an unfair map," Pritzker said at a Tuesday press conference. "I’ve also said that in order for us to have an independent commission, we’d need to have a constitutional amendment to actually change th...

For the first time since Illinois joined the union in 1818, federal census figures showed the state’s population declined over the previous decade, reducing its representation in the U.S. House from 18 members to 17 and diminishing its clout in Washington. The U.S. Census Bureau on Monday said Illinois’ 2020 resident population was 12,812,508, a decrease of more than 18,000 people, or 0.14%, from the 12,830,632 people reported as residents in the 2010 census. Illinois was one of three...

The Poshard Foundation for Abused Children distributed grants to dozens of social service agencies Tuesday. The Poshard Foundation awarded grants to 30 agencies in the region totaling more than $100,000. Founder Glenn Poshard says the foundation’s happy they are able to support these agencies after the uncertainty of the past year. “The pandemic has put stress on everyone, but the one thing that we know from communicating with the social service agencies throughout the area is the effort h...

A Republican lawmaker from Springfield pounded his fist, screamed and threw a paper calendar across the Illinois House chamber Thursday night, saying he was frustrated Democrats wont call a House vote on his bill to allow a referendum on a Capital Township merger with Sangamon County government.  “I’ve got a bill that is important to my community that the leadership will not call,” state Rep. Tim Butler said, referring to House Bill 2994.    In a three-minute speech ...

10 SPRINGFIELD, Illinois – The Illinois Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion is reaching beyond lunchroom displays and promotional items, and becoming part of the educational process in Illinois high schools and colleges. “It is a mutual benefit between the learning institution and Illinois National Guard recruiting,” said Sgt. Maj. Chad McDannald of Franklin Illinois, the battalion’s operations sergeant major. “We have specific presentations that t...