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Scott County Supervisor Mark Maxwell says the board wants strengthen the programs they already have and continue building a new facility.

Capitol News Illinois reached out to the Illinois Department of Public Health as to what percentage of individuals who had contracted, been hospitalized or died of COVID-19 were unvaccinated during the June and July surge, but did not receive a response as of this publication. Support Local Journalism WCIA-TV Champaign’s Mark Maxwell reported last week that IDPH said 87 percent of the June COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations were in unvaccinated individuals, along with 92 percent of COVID-19-related deaths. Approximately 51 percent of the state’s population is fully vaccinated, or a...

Governor Prtzker leads again. Creating a statewide mask mandate for all K-12 schools is not only the right thing to do until all students have access to covid vaccination, but it’s necessary to prevent the repeated confrontations from the luddites at normally staid school board meetings. Science doesn’t support that mask usage in schools changes the rate for childrens spread. What the data did find was lower the spread to adults working in the school. But at this point in time with vaccines available and schools mandating it for the teacher you really must question are we ever going to r...

Westport Is Getting Richer, But Its Heritage Is Fading The next time you're in Westport, no matter where you are, take a good look around. What was once a countryside filled with locals and easy-going people is now a thriving region of real estate being bought up by rich out-of-towners. Westport is changing and its roots are beginning to fade away. Every square inch of woodland area is being eyeballed by wealthy business folk who are building multimillion dollar properties that are turning this small town community into a financial statement. Some folks like myself who are looking to som...

RICK PEARSON Chicago Tribune A Republican candidate for Illinois governor said in a weekend TV interview that he would not encourage people to get a COVID-19 vaccination, incorrectly saying the shots were not FDA-approved and had caused thousands of deaths. Gary Rabine, a Bull Valley businessman and ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump and conservative causes, said he was not an “anti-vaxxer by any stretch.” But he criticized private businesses and public institutions mandating “these vaccines that are not FDA-approved, it’s crazy.” Vaccines f...