SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn's budget for the year beginning July 1 includes dozens of facility closings and consolidations, a pledge to restructure the state's $14 billion Medicaid program and another look at trying to reduce pension costs.
It will require extraordinary cooperation and agreement from the Legislature. And the early signs are not encouraging for the governor.
SPRINGFIELD — This was no easy out for Springfield. No chance to rest starters and conserve energy and strength for the next game.
Before the state's top-ranked Class 3A girls' basketball team could advance to the sectional finals, it had to contend with a team Tuesday at Taylorville High School that played like a quality, Top 10 opponent.
TUSCOLA — Dakota Zenner wasn't quite ready for his basketball career to be over Tuesday night.
The Paxton-Buckley-Loda senior had a career night, scoring 22 points and grabbing 12 rebounds to lead his second-seeded team to a 51-40 win against seventh-seeded Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley in an opening-round game of the Class 2A Tuscola Regional.
G-RF 70, Marshall 59. Matthew Hay scored a game-high-tying 20 points for fourth-seeded Georgetown-Ridge Farm against the top-seeded team at the Casey Regional.
Officials agree that $3 million incentive worth it to fill in hole left by Metropolitan Building fire in 2008
CHAMPAIGN — City council members unanimously said Tuesday night that they would be willing to offer up to $3 million in tax rebates to the developer of a proposed nine-story hotel to see the project get off the ground.
CHAMPAIGN — The attorneys for an Iowa woman who allegedly got sick after eating a sandwich with sprouts from a Jimmy John's restaurant in West Des Moines, Iowa, have filed a lawsuit against the restaurant.
