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FILE - North Central women's wrestling team's Amani Jones, right, works with Yele Aycock during a practice at the Alliant Energy Powerhouse arena in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Sports
2 months ago
Women’s college wrestling achieves major milestone with first NCAA championships set this weekend

The championships aren’t divided into divisions, so a school like McKendree, a Division II school located in Lebanon, Illinois, is competing against Iowa of the Big Ten. North Central College, a Division III school in Naperville, Illinois, won the National Duals with victories over McKendree and Iowa.

Business
2 months ago
Stop doing everything: How small business leaders in Illinois can reclaim 67 workdays each year

New Upwork survey reveals that Illinois and US SMB leaders spend a lot of their time on non-core work.

David Becker, founder and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, is among 18 former Department of Justice attorneys who filed a brief in federal court in Illinois opposing the department’s lawsuit seeking access to the state’s unredacted voter registration database. (Screenshot of Zoom call by Capitol News Illinois)
IL State News
2 months ago
Former DOJ attorneys intervene in lawsuit seeking sensitive Illinois voter registration data

Illinois is among 30 jurisdictions being sued by Trump administration over access to voter data.

Gov. JB Pritzker takes questions during a news conference Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
IL State News
2 months ago
Pritzker: Clinton corrected himself; he and I were never on an Epstein plane

“President Clinton clearly was mistaken, and he corrected the mistake, to his credit,” said Pritzker.

Jane Ruby, president of the League of Women Voters of Chicago, speaks at a March 2, 2026 news conference introducing the Illinois Epstein Files Investigation Act. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Maggie Dougherty)
IL State News
2 months ago
Illinois lawmakers call for governor-appointed Epstein investigatory commission

Commission would investigate Illinois-based crimes connected to notorious sex trafficker.

IL State News
2 months ago
Pritzker’s name in Clinton’s mouth during Epstein testimony

LINK TO VIDEO
Pritzker’s team: Governor had nothing to do with Epstein.

Border Patrol agent wears a body camera in Chicago in October. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Andrew Adams)
IL State News
2 months ago
Even amid partial DHS shutdown, Illinois remains on edge over ICE coming back

State lawmakers, Chicago officials consider options against immigration officials.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol walks back from the mound after making a pitching change during the second inning of a spring training baseball game against the New York Mets Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, in Jupiter, Fla. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Sports
2 months ago
Cardinals extend manager Oliver Marmol through 2028, with a club option for 2029

The deal includes a club option for 2029, the club said.

Chicago Cubs' Nico Hoerner hits during a spring training baseball workout Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026, in Mesa, Ariz. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Sports
2 months ago
It’s an OPS world in today’s major leagues with batting average in the background

The significance of batting average has been in decline for years, replaced by on-base percentage and slugging percentage, along with the OPS metric that combines the two.

The casket of the Rev. Jesse Jackson is carried to the South Carolina Statehouse, where he will lie in state, Monday, March 2, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, Pool)
National
2 months ago
Rev. Jesse Jackson returns home to South Carolina to lie in state

The final full honors from the state where he was born is a far cry from his childhood in segregated Greenville, where in 1960 he couldn’t go inside the local library’s much better funded whites-only branch to check out a book he needed.

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