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SPRINGFIELD, IL – A new report on the pollution impacts coming from heavy trucks in Illinois points to massive public health benefits and up to 14,000 new jobs that would likely come from policies bringing cleaner trucks and vehicles to the state’s roads in the coming years. The new Illinois Clean Trucks Program report highlights the disproportionate […]
Illinois is one of eight states that heads to the polls on Tuesday. Alexandra Buxbaum / Sipa USA via AP Images By the end of the day on Tuesday, 29.5 states — why do you always have to make things difficult, New York? — will have held their 2022 primary elections. But we still have […]
Illinois Republican Mary Miller told a crowd at a rally held alongside former president Donald Trump that the supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade was a “victory for white life”. “President Trump, on behalf of all the Maga patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life […]
As hate crime incidents rise nationwide, Illinois has revived a commission focused on addressing them here at home. According to the FBI’s latest annual report, there were 8,263 hate crime incidents in the U.S. in 2020. That’s up from 7,314 in 2019 when the country experienced the highest number of hate crimes since 2008. Now […]
For the second election cycle in a row, one of Illinois’ seats in the United States Senate is being contested, and the Democratic incumbent is looking to stay in Washington. Sen. Tammy Duckworth is running for her second term in office, having defeated incumbent Mark Kirk in the 2016 election. Duckworth is currently serving on […]
A predominantly Black college in central Illinois that saw its enrollment plummet during the COVID-19 pandemic says it has been unable to recover and must close its doors after 157 years By DON BABWIN Associated Press May 12, 2022, 3:21 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article CHICAGO — A […]
Scott Irwin is the Laurence J. Norton Chair of Agricultural Marketing in the department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Irwin, an expert in agricultural commodity markets, spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about the potential for a global food crisis. Are we on the verge […]
In 1984, Tracey Meares was on her way to becoming her Illinois high school’s first Black valedictorian, with the highest academic ranking at Springfield High. Instead, she was declared “top student” – alongside Heather Russell, a white student. Thirty-eight years later, Meares is valedictorian at last, after she was finally presented with the title last […]
Kate Masur, the Northwestern history professor who started a deep online archive and history of pre-Civil War Black Illinois, chats with students Marquis Taylor and Mikala Stokes, who worked on the project, on April 5, 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) Source link
Even as the vast majority of the U.S. has made progress in the fight against COVID-19, more than a dozen counties across the country are experiencing troubling metrics, as shown by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Of the nation’s 3,006 counties, 123 are listed in the medium community level category, as defined by […]