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FILE - Cars pass the 95th Street Red Line Station, the train station currently the farthest south on the line and where the Chicago Transit Authority plans to extend from in 2025, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)
IL State News
3 months ago
Chicago Transit Authority lawsuit targets federal construction funding halted last fall

The lawsuit comes days after New York City authorities filed a lawsuit seeking resumption of similar federal transit funding to the tune of $60 million.

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine students learn where they will be "matching" in the medical field next year.
Education
3 months 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.

Health & Wellness
3 months ago
Croke: Despite close vote, mental health referendum brought people together

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

Local
3 months ago
Top House GOP lawmaker can’t survive attack from the right

Western IL district elects Freedom Party favorite Josh Higgins.

Marc Bell
Local
3 months 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.

Lindsey Prather, 43, was arrested this week on child sexual abuse-related allegations.
Crime
3 months ago
Former New Berlin School District employee charged for alleged sex with minor

The alleged incidents happened on or before April, 2025.

The CBS Broadcast Center in New York
National
3 months 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.

This undated photo shows James "Jimmy" Gracey, left, with his aunt Beth Marren O'Reilly.
IL State News
3 months 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.

IL State News
3 months ago
Peoria lawmaker on his years with Chavez

Koehler: “I just don’t know how he lived with himself.”

Local
3 months ago
Thousands rally for life

They are unhappy that state is a blue island.