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Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs on Monday continued to promote a new state program which he says is a first step to alleviating a nationwide "retirement crisis.

A woman frantically pushed a wheelchair into the lobby of HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital about noon Monday.

A Washington city will soon begin taxing guns and ammunition. The city council in Tacoma voted to levy the tax beginning in July, TV station KIRO reports.

Chick-fil-A says it is no longer making contributions to a pair of Christian charities that critics said were anti-LGBTQ.

Several local and area schools are stepping up for Vandalia High School after Saturday's crash on Illinois Route 185 near Coffeen claimed the lives of four people, including two freshmen at the high school.

The Springfield District 186 school board unanimously approved the tentative agreement between the district and the Springfield Education Association at its Monday meeting.

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University of Illinois Springfield men's basketball player Daniel Soetan was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference player of the week on Monday.

Back in August, before anybody had played football in anger, coach Ken Leonard made this declaration: "We just might have three teams from this conference playing for state championships in three different classes." And if not for a teachers' strike in Chicago, which led to Rochester being bumped from Class 4A to 5A, Leonard just might have been right.