Category Archives: Decatur Radio

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order on Monday at Breakthrough Urban Ministries on the west side of Chicago. Pritzker thanked lawmakers and city officials for their work putting together the l...

The name of the semi driver killed in a crash on I-74 in Mahomet is being released. The Champaign County coroner says 38-year-old Ivaylo Dimitrov was pronounced dead at the scene Saturday afternoon. I...

The number of COVID-19 positive cases continues to drop week to week. Last week's total reported by the Illinois Department of Public Health was 14,616, down nearly 500 from the week before and more t...

Illinois state lawmakers aren't back in Springfield until next year. After wrapping up the fall veto session last week, the legislative calendar for the spring was updated. They'll return Jan. 4 with ...

Illinois midwives are on the verge of having access to licensure. The practice of providing unlicensed care to pregnant women and their newborns has been illegal since 1992. The state Senate passed a ...

On 10/30/21 at 3:32 AM, Decatur Police were sent to the area of Leafland and Union reference numerous calls of shots fired. Responding officers found an unresponsive 29-year-old male suffering from mu...

Attorney Thomas DeVore is requesting the Illinois Supreme Court consolidate several of the COVID-19 mask and quarantine cases he has brought against schools on behalf of parents. In an emergency filin...

Following a temporary restraining order barring Riverside Healthcare's plan to fire a group of nurses for not complying with COVID-19 vaccine mandates, 56 more employees are requesting to be added to ...

With the legislature wrapped up for the year, they didn't select a new inspector to investigate alleged lawmaker wrongdoing. Current Legislative Inspector General Carol Pope, who called the office a "...

More than 40 percent of deaths related to COVID-19 in Illinois from the past week were people who were vaccinated. That's according to the most recent seven-day data from the Illinois Department of Pu...