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A lot of military memorials honor service abroad. But one being planned in Illinois will recognize those whose battle continued when they came home.
The Forgotten Warrior Memorial could be in place next year in Channahon State Park in Will County. It will pay tribute to military men and women who lost their lives to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Thousands of former coal workers and dependents who worked for now-bankrupt coal companies could lose their health insurance at the end of the year if Congress does not pass legislation to fund it. Retirees in southern Illinois say losing their health insurance would amount to a broken promise from the coal companies that would have devastating effects to their well-being.
University of Illinois leaders are backing proposed legislation that would tie levels of state funding with performance metrics like awarding financial aid, graduation rates, and holding down tuition costs. President Tim Killeen says the 5-year pact would guarantee ‘baseline’ state funding would increase by the rate of inflation during each remaining year.
The grand jury indictment against Aaron Schock accuses the former Illinois congressman of spending $40,000 in government funds to redecorate his Washington office - including the purchase of a $5,000 chandelier. The U.S. attorney's office in Springfield announced the 24-count, 52-page indictment on Thursday. Schock says he will fight the allegations and expose the investigation as a politically-driven witch hunt.
On the 21st: Pulitzer-prize winning writer Margo Jefferson’s new memoir is about growing up in Chicago’s black elite in the 1950s and 1960s. And, we talked with writer and anti-war activist Bill Ayers about this political moment.
