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Republican candidate for governor Richard Irvin met with law enforcement at a campaign stop in Bloomington on Friday as new polling shows him trailing party frontrunner Darren Bailey by double digits with less than three weeks before the primary election.

Since Memorial Day, COVID cases around the state have risen 10%, according to Illinois Department of Public Health Acting Director Amaal Tokars.

Thousands of Corvettes will fill the Illinois State University campus this weekend as Bloomington Gold returns to its hometown for its 50th anniversary.

In Rica Rountree's case, mandated reporters alerted the state’s child welfare agency of potential serious abuse. They sounded the alarm bell repeatedly, only to have those alarms ignored or not thoroughly investigated by the agency tasked with doing so. Instead, the investigator who mishandled Rica’s case was promoted.

The two Republicans who represent Bloomington-Normal in the U.S. House voted Wednesday against a wide-ranging gun control bill that would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle and prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds.

The Boy Scouts of America has been around for more than 110 years, and the Central Illinois W.D. Boyce council is celebrating its 50-year anniversary.For the next 18 months, this council will celebrate the longevity of scouting with both community-based and council-wide events.

With no hope of a ceasefire soon, Turkey has turned to the more limited goal of ensuring that grain supplies can be shipped out from the Black Sea through the Bosphorus. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk I was in Turkey to try to further peace talks, as an experienced diplomat with good co

Sarah Anderson says Biden has the power to crack down on executive excess by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal contractors. By Sarah Anderson Inequality.org A tight labor market created a rare moment of leverage for low-wage workers last year. But Corporate America to

The American Red Cross has announced its keynote speaker for the 27th annual Evening of Stars event. The special guest is Jon Dorenbos. He played 14 seasons in the NFL.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of Americans to switch to online work environments and virtual learning, and many learned quickly that sharing internet access with multiple devices was a challenge.Seeing that this problem will not go away anytime soon without action, Peoria and Woodford Counties are joining the Accelerate Illinois Broadband Infrastructure Planning Program to improve broadband.