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FILE - Wyatt Seymore pours the last drops of liquid from a water bottle into his mouth as he takes a break from unloading a stiflingly hot trailer of fireworks outside Powder Monkey Fireworks ahead of the opening of the stand, June 17, 2024, in Weldon Spring, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
IL State News
1 year ago
Heat dome will blanket much of the US, with worrisome temperatures in Midwest

A heat dome occurs when a large area of high pressure in the upper atmosphere acts as a reservoir that traps heat and humidity, said Ricky Castro, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Illinois

Local
1 year ago
Budzinski one of those named in notes of Minnesota shooting suspect

45 Democrat officials named in suspect’s notes

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Local
1 year ago
Springfield’s ‘No Kings’ rally draws thousand-plus to State Capitol

Concerns raised over Trump, Budzinski, Medicaid, immigration, ICE, and other issues

FILE - President Donald Trump, from left, speaks as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., during an event in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)\\\
National
1 year ago
Trump administration gives personal data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials

The dataset includes the information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
IL State News
1 year ago
Mr. Pritzker goes to Washington, testifies on immigration policies

Pritzker, other Governors, questioned on illegal immigration, transgender use of bathrooms, Medicaid cuts

U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, a Murphysboro Republican, speaks to reporters in Milwaukee following an event with Illinois Republicans during the Republican National Convention in July 2024. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
IL State News
1 year ago
U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Illinois congressman’s appeal of mail-in voting

Lower courts ruled downstate Republican representative Bost lacked standing to sue

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IL State News
1 year ago
Lincoln’s blood-stained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction

The auction at Freeman’s/Hindman in Chicago raised $7.9 million, but that includes buyers’ premiums of roughly 28% tacked onto each sale to cover the auction house’s administrative costs.