Category Archives: Decatur Radio

The Illinois State Board of Education is unveiling a two-million-dollar grant for school district to hire local teachers. The "Grow Your Own" grant recruits local students to the teaching profession. ...

The Illinois High School Association is letting local schools decide how to handle COVID-19 policies during sporting events. The IHSA board said they are talking to lawyers to determine how to proceed...

Illinois is planning to lift the statewide indoor mask mandate by the end of the month. Governor Pritzker announced yesterday that Illinoisans will be able resume activities without wearing a mask ind...

Governor JB Pritzker is expected to announce plans today to start rolling back his statewide indoor mask mandate. Governor Pritzker teased the rollback yesterday, telling residents to "stay tuned" for...

Per the CDC, it's time for at-risk Illinois residents to consider getting their fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that people with underlying...

Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza is asking the big three bond rating agencies to consider upgrading the state's credit rating. Mendoza made the request in a letter sent last week to the rating agen...

The Illinois Department of Public Health is adding 58-hundred COVID-19 cases to its running total. That's about a thousand more than Monday, but half what it was on Friday. The statewide positivity ra...

The Decatur Police Department announced it will conduct special patrols throughout Super Bowl weekend to crack down on impaired drivers and encourage people to wear their seat belts. If your Super Bow...

Governor JB Pritzker is blasting a downstate judge's order that disrupted his mask mandate in schools. Governor Pritzker said the ruling is out of step with the vast majority of legal analysis in Illi...

Illinois is leading the Midwest in business startups. Officials say nearly 199-thousand business startups were created in the state last year. That number is the highest-ever in Illinois since the dat...