IPM Clef Notes Editor Katie Buzard sings on ‘Great Performances’
Kimberly Schofield spoke with IPM’s Clef Notes writer and editor Katie Buzard about her featured singing role on Great Performances, which airs on Monday, August 21 at 9pm.
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Trump, Rauner, policy wins on Democrats’ minds during State Fair’s political festivities
Pritzker calls Illinois a ‘beacon for national success’ when it comes to 2024 elections.
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Strong storms may impact central Illinois today
Meteorologists are forecasting a line of thunderstorms moving across central Illinois on Thursday. These storms have the potential to produce gusty winds (40-60 mph) and hail to the size of half-dollars. Here’s the audio forecast from IPM News meteorologist Andrew Pritchard: Tweets by NWSLincolnIL
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Choate director replaced as new report says abuse at the facility hasn’t stopped
A new report by an advocacy agency details how abuse and neglect at Choate have continued despite calls for and promises of reform. Now, the Illinois Department of Human Services has reversed its decision to keep Choate’s top leadership in place.
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217 Today: Illinois now requires K-12 students to learn Native American history. What has to be in the lessons, and who is checking?
August 16, 2023 Today’s headlines: Thomas Paine Elementary School is opening its doors for the first day of school today with its newly renovated and expanded facilities. Federal student loan borrowers will have to resume repayment this fall, after getting a break during COVID. Three former staff members of Northwestern University’s baseball team filed suit against…
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Illinois now requires K-12 students to learn Native American history. What has to be in the lessons, and who is checking?
The law requires teachers to cover contemporary Native American history and urban communities like Chicago.
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Gun industry group challenges new firearms marketing restrictions
National Shooting Sports Foundation claims law is unconstitutional, conflicts with federal law.
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Illinois, fresh off bowl trip and 8-win season, has ‘unfinished business’ as opener draws near
The Illini finished 8-5 in coach Bret Bielema’s second year after 10 straight losing seasons, placed second in the Big Ten West, played in a bowl game for the first time since 2019 and had four NFL draft picks.
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217 Today: ‘It can implode and our families are suffering’: What are northern Illinois’ early childhood needs?
August 15, 2023 Today’s headlines: Garden Hills Academy in Champaign re-opened as a pre-K-through-eight school — adding early childhood and middle school grades to the former elementary school. Governor JB Pritzker’s administration and the labor union AFSCME agreed last month to raise state employee wages by almost 18% over four years. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s…
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Garden Hills Academy in Champaign reopens for fall as pre-K-8
The Unit 4 School District decided to add grades to both Garden Hills and International Prep Academy last year. The rationale was to decrease pre-kindergarten and middle school overcrowding, as well as promote socioeconomic diversity.
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Piatt County to start wind farm zoning hearings on August 28.
The Piatt County Zoning Board has scheduled its first hearing on a new wind farm proposal from Apex Clean Energy for Monday, August 28 at the Monticello Community Center.
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Trump, 18 allies indicted in Georgia over 2020 election meddling, the 4th criminal case against him
The grand jury heard from witnesses into the evening Monday in the election subversion investigation into Donald Trump. The long day of testimony was punctuated by the mysterious and brief appearance on a county website of a list of criminal charges against the former president that prosecutors later disavowed.
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Trump has been indicted in a fourth case. Here’s where all the investigations stand
The Fulton County investigation is the latest criminal case for Trump as he runs for the White House in 2024.
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Firearms industry could face lawsuits for deceptive marketing under new law
Pritzker signed measure subjecting firearms industry to consumer fraud laws
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Peaches are in short supply this year after weather pitfalls in the Midwest and South
Despite the chatter and hustle of a dozen or so workers, the production line at Flamm Orchards in deep southern Illinois sits mostly quiet this summer. A cold spell in late December knocked out a vast majority of the 300-acre farm’s peach crop. “To have a loss as bad as we’ve had this year, it’s…
