Friday, June 23, 2023 Today’s headlines: As pandemic-era policies around Medicaid renewals end, Illinois providers are working to make sure no one gets left behind. A state audit shows a healthcare coverage program for Illinois kids has, again, lost millions in federal matching dollars due to clerical errors. Illinois Senate President Don Harmon says the…
DECATUR — Kindergarten through 6th graders from Dennis Lab School in Decatur now know where they will attend school in the fall – Garfield Learning Academy. Decatur Public Schools announced last week that it would close both Dennis buildings for a year after engineers found they were not structurally sound. Students were already on summer…
Thursday, June 22, 2023 Today’s headlines: Advocates are taking to the streets, urging Illinois officials not to freeze enrollment in a healthcare coverage program for undocumented immigrants. Some Midwestern cities are putting conservation measures in place to keep their water supplies from drying up as the drought rages on. The National Guard in Illinois say…
In a survey of about one-thousand students, about half said they had been the victim of hurtful comments. Over half thought bullying was a problem at school.
June 21, 2023 Today’s headlines: One U of I grad was attacked and another was killed in Germany last week. The congressional debt ceiling agreement capped federal housing assistance program spending for the new fiscal year. Latino lawmakers in Illinois are encouraging undocumented immigrants to sign up for state-supported healthcare coverage before it’s too late. Urbana students report…
Several measure could be revived in legislature’s fall veto session
The Rev. Mark Zhang of Living Water Evangelical Church in Naperville, Illinois, said Tuesday that Eva Liu’s parents confirmed to him that she was killed after a Michigan man attacked her and Kelsey Chang while they were hiking near Neuschwanstein castle June 14.
Driving along the Rock River, Mitch Leatherbie, a street superintendent for the city of Rockford, Illinois, spots a pair of trees he considers survivors. “There’s two ash trees, right, they’re still standing,” said Leatherbie. “… Those were just a couple of them that we kept.” In the early 2000s, Rockford lost approximately 5,000 ash trees…
June 20, 2023 Today’s headlines: A Democratic Illinois Congressman says lawmakers need to do more to prevent mass shootings. Illinois police departments can now use drones to patrol parades and other special events. An Illinois prison watchdog is calling on the state to act faster to meet its own goal of closing all youth prisons….
New law allows event surveillance, building inspections, search and rescue
German police say they have arrested a 30-year-old American man in the attack at Neuschwanstein castle Wednesday.
Fresh from his front-row seat at Donald Trump’s post-arraignment political rally, downstate farmer Darren Bailey on Wednesday pledged his full-throated support for the former president — ahead of the former state senator’s own expected attempt at a political comeback. “It’s an honor to stand with this man,” Bailey wrote on Facebook above a photo of…
CHAMPAIGN — Neighbors and social workers gathered at the Douglass Annex Thursday to discuss violence at parties that pop up after bars close. Some wanted curfews and security cameras. Middle school teacher Rhonda Harris suggested the city host its own safe version with police and chaperones. “We can have a controlled area, like a parking…
Friday, June 16, 2023 Today’s headlines: Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed a law limiting constitutional challenges to Cook or Sangamon County. Indigenous farmers in the Midwest are sharing their knowledge about regenerative agriculture. After shootings and car crashes at a pop-up party on Sunday left 9 injured, Champaign considers how to prevent future violence. Some in the…
MTD will hold its first Juneteeth Block party on Friday, June 16 in downtown Champaign.