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4 weeks ago

SIU Med students make the perfect match

"I think we're really proud of our students. Because we know that they have been prepared to critically think, to be emotionally intelligent, and to really embrace what it means to be a physician," said McDowell.

4 weeks ago

Croke: Despite close vote, mental health referendum brought people together

Croke: It was a true bipartisan effort to get the referendum passed.

4 weeks ago

Top House GOP lawmaker can’t survive attack from the right

Western IL district elects Freedom Party favorite Josh Higgins.

4 weeks ago

Democrat Bell back in election race for Sangamon County Sheriff

Despite withdrawal before the primary, Bell still got almost 12,000 votes because his name was still on the ballot.

4 weeks ago

Former New Berlin School District employee charged for alleged sex with minor

The alleged incidents happened on or before April, 2025.

4 weeks ago

CBS News shutters its storied radio news service after nearly a century, ending an era

Newstalk 93.9 and AM 1240 WTAX has been a CBS Radio affiliate since 1943.

4 weeks ago

US college student’s death in Barcelona was likely an accident, Spanish police say

Gracey’s body was found Thursday afternoon in the waters off a beach, near where he was last seen outside a Barcelona nightclub with his friends in the early hours of Tuesday.

4 weeks ago

Peoria lawmaker on his years with Chavez

Koehler: "I just don't know how he lived with himself."

4 weeks ago

Thousands rally for life

They are unhappy that state is a blue island.

4 weeks ago

Gas prices continue rising, food truck businesses feel the strain

"We typically prepare for it, but with them skyrocketing so quickly, it was something that kind of hit us the wrong way," Cohn said.

4 weeks ago

State Farm to move all Bloomington workers to Corporate South by 2027

State Farm CEO Jon Farney said the company is unsure what will happen to those facilities. 

4 weeks ago

Margaret Croke wins Democratic primary for Illinois comptroller

Four Democrats fought to replace outgoing Comptroller Susana Mendoza.

4 weeks ago

Companies could be on the hook for work-related activities before and after shifts start, court rules

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled state wage law does not include certain federal exclusions.

4 weeks ago

Lawyers say D.C. court’s decision striking down large-capacity magazine ban should be applied to Illinois

Raoul’s office argues a federal appeals court isn’t bound by the decision.

4 weeks ago

Proposed bill would require Illinois high schools to offer voter registration

Named after the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, the act aims to increase youth voter registration.

4 weeks ago

Bailey says campaign will focus on Chicago area after rough primary night in suburbs

Republicans seeking unity as party seeks to reverse decade of statewide losses.

4 weeks ago

AL Central Preview: Tigers open as favorites while the White Sox try to climb out of the basement

Here's a look at one of baseball's most unpredictable divisions heading into opening day.

4 weeks ago

NL Central Preview: Loaded Cubs going for the division title, but Brewers and Reds are lurking

Bregman is hoping to lead the Chicago Cubs to their first Central title since 2020 after signing a $175 million, five-year contract with the North Siders in free agency.

4 weeks ago

The body of an American student who went missing in Barcelona has been found, police in Spain say

Gracey never returned to the room he was renting with friends, according to family members who live in the suburb of Elmhurst, about 19 miles (31 kilometers) west of Chicago.

4 weeks ago

UIS tenure-track faculty vote to authorize strike

The strike authorization vote came Thursday at the same time the University of Illinois Board of Trustees was holding their monthly board meeting in the UIS Student Union.

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