Mark Your Calendars for our Upcoming Senior Health Fair in Quincy I hope to see you at the Kroc Center on the 15th for free screenings, along with lots of helpful…

Progress towards startup of a new Central Illinois school focusing on the building trades The San Damiano College for the Trades will provide adult-level education aimed at skilled-trades career pathways. …

Proposed wind energy high-voltage line, which would pass through Central Illinois, faces uncertain future The proposed “Grain Belt Express” transmission line would be an electricity trunk line similar to the…

Proposed Illinois law would cut all prison sentences in half A proposed bill could grant JoAnn Cunningham – who is serving 35 years for killing her 5-year-old son AJ in their Crystal Lake home…

Agriculture Update More Illinois Jobs Being Lost In June, nine Illinois companies announced that over 1,000 jobs would be affected by mass layoffs. Illinois has become one of the least…

New July Laws, Higher Gas Taxes On July 1, new laws will take effect in Illinois…and you will also be paying more at the pump for gas. Illinois gas tax…

As expected, this week Governor JB Pritzker signed into law a partisan $53.1 billion spending plan, the largest budget in state history. The Fiscal Year 2025 budget is $2.6 billion more…

The Illinois House adjourned at about 5:00 this morning, a few short hours after the majority party muscled through a $53.1 billion state budget for Fiscal Year 2025 that includes more…

Today was another deadline day in the House as we focused on considering and amending bills advanced to us by the Senate. The deadline to advance Senate Bills through committee…

We’re back in Springfield tomorrow for the homestretch of our spring legislative session. The month of May will be largely focused on considering bills that have been advanced to us…