Category Archives: Decatur Radio

In response to ongoing federal investigations surrounding Illinois government, State Senator Andy Manar is calling on the Joint Commission on Ethics and Lobbying Reform to consider including in their ...

Congressman Rodney Davis, along with Congressman A. Donald McEachin, and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, have introduced a bipartisan bill to protect patients from increased out-of-pocket prescri...

The Illinois Department of Public Health Thursday announced 1,834 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease in Illinois, including 24 additional confirmed deaths. Macon County reported Thursday 32 ne...

Assaulting a retail employee for enforcing COVID-19 guidelines is now a felony in Illinois. The change was made after Governor J.B. Pritzker enacted emergency rules Tuesday. People charged with the ne...

Officials at Illinois State University say a student living in a residence hall has tested positive for COVID-19. The university hasn't identified the student or which hall the student was living in. ...

The state is awarding the first round of Business Interruption grants. Forty-six million dollars in BIG grants have been handed out to more than 26-hundred businesses including salons, gyms, and resta...

  Listen to the interview with Decatur City Manager Scot Wrighton on Talk 101 discussing the budget.

The numbers are definitely up in Illinois. The State's corn yield is expected to be 207 bushels per acre, up 26 bushels from last year. Illinois' soybean yield is expected to hit 64 bushels per acre, ...

The Macon County Health Department reported 21 newly-confirmed cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, bringing the overall number to 675 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Macon County. The Illinois Department of Publ...

A new report from TOP Data ranks Illinois third nationally for social distancing. The report puts Illinois' percentage of normal interactions at 32-and-a-half-percent. Lower percentages earn states a ...