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Lawmakers Return To Springfield To Start Veto Session
(Springfield, IL) -- It could be a very busy week in Springfield. Or Illinois lawmakers could just talk about the state's issues. Lawmakers are due back at the statehouse today for the first week of t...
Oct 24, 2017
Sports News On October 23, 2017
>>Rookie Jackson Shines As Bears Thump Panthers (Chicago, IL) -- Rookie safety Eddie Jackson became the first NFL player with two defensive touchdowns longer than 75 yards in a single gam...
Oct 23, 2017
Advocates Want Illinois Out Of Voter Crosscheck System
(Chicago, IL) -- The push to get Illinois to drop out of President Trump's voter crosscheck system is growing. The ACLU is among the advocates that told Illinois lawmakers last week that the state nee...
Oct 23, 2017 League of Women Voters of California LWVC / CC
Illinois Governor's Race Likely Will Be Most Expensive Ever
(Springfield, IL) -- With a billionaire and a multi-millionaire both in the contest, the race for Illinoisgovernor won't be cheap. In fact many experts in Springfield say the 2018 race for governor li...
Oct 23, 2017 Jim Bowen / CC
Rauner: 200 Million Just Start Of Budget Cuts
(Springfield, IL) -- Illinois has a budget, but that doesn't mean that Illinois has the money to spend. Governor Bruce Rauner last week laid out 200 million-dollars in budget cuts that he says have to...
Oct 23, 2017 Justin Brockie / CC
2017 IHSA Class 1A-Class 5A Football Brackets
On Saturday night 256 teams across the state of Illinois in eight different classes were paired for the 2017 IHSA Football Playoffs. Listed below are Class 1A through 5A brackets and on Monday the sch...
Oct 22, 2017
Activists Urging Rauner, Legislators To Leave Multistate Voter Database
Voter rights advocates are pushing Illinois election officials to withdraw from a longtime multistate voter registration database over questions of accuracy, security and voter suppression. They're al...
Oct 22, 2017
Illinois Civil War Museum Getting Help From Woman’s Group
An organization is working to reopen a Civil War museum in Illinois that has been closed since August. The National Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, says it needs tim...
Oct 22, 2017
Sports News for Sunday October 22, 2017
Astros Shutout Yankees, Advance To World Series (Houston, TX) -- Charlie Morton and Lance McCullers Junior combined on a three-hit shutout as the Astros blanked the Yankees, 4-0, in Game Seven of the ...
Oct 22, 2017
Reward Offered In Tuesday Attempted Murder in Decatur
A reward has been offered for information leading to the identification of one of more than a half-dozen people involved in a shooting in Decatur on Monday. Police say Monday night, a man was driving ...
Oct 21, 2017 Pictures of Money / CC
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