Category Archives: Local News
Salem Community High School gives final approval to $2.6-million kitchen-cafeteria renovation
The Salem Community High School Board has approved an amendment to its performance contract with Ameresco to include a renovation of the kitchen and cafeteria area this summer. Superintendent Dr. Brad...
Mar 21, 2023
2nd officer in inmate's fatal beating gets same 20-year term
By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The second of three former correctional officers sentenced in the fatal beating of a state inmate received a 20-year prison term Monday, t...
Mar 21, 2023 FILE - Former Illinois Correctional Lt. Todd Sheffler returns to federal court in Springfield, Ill., on April 21, 2022. Sheffler, the second of three former correctional officers to be sentenced in the beating death of a state prisoner, received a 20-year term on Monday, March 20, 2023, the same as a co-conspirator despite the judge's declaration that Sheffler was the highest-ranking officer and could have prevented them melee. (AP Photo/John O'Connor, File)
'You're a street fighter,' Madigan confidant counseled former speaker: wiretapped call
Jury hears 16 more recorded calls; Rep. says Madigan ruled 'through fear and intimidation' By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News Illinoishmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - Facing a perceived betrayal du...
Mar 21, 2023 The Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse is pictured in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photos by Hannah Meisel)
2 Central Illinois teens dead after sledding at Colorado ski resort
FRISCO, Colo. (AP) - A community in Illinois is in mourning a day after two local teens were killed while sledding at a Colorado ski resort. Paula Crane, superintendent of the Prairie Central school d...
Mar 21, 2023 Don Heffernan / CC
Police: Arrest made in theft of funeral van containing body
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Authorities in Wisconsin have arrested a man in connection with the theft last January of a funeral home van containing a body, saying he faces charges of abuse of a corpse and ...
Mar 21, 2023
Marion County Republicans hold 74th Annual Lincoln Day Dinner
Getting more people to the polls was the recurring theme of the speakers at the 74th Annual Lincoln Day Dinner held Saturday night at the Marion County Fairgrounds Exhibit building. The wife of Republ...
Mar 20, 2023 Cindy Bailey, the wife of Republican Gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey speaks at the 74th Annual Lincoln Day Dinner in Salem on Saturday.
Salem Soccer Park Association hopes to have first soccer fields ready by next spring; fundraising underway
The Salem Soccer Park Association has been formed as a non-profit organization with the goal of working in a public-private partnership with the city to develop a soccer field complex. Matt Stanford, ...
Mar 20, 2023 USAG- Humphreys / CC
Illinois Attorney General pushing 'Work Without Fear Act'
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is urging lawmakers to pass the "Work Without Fear Act." The bill aims to protect workers who come forward about problems on the job. Attorney General Raoul says ...
Mar 20, 2023 Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.
William Jennings Bryan Birthday celebrated in Salem
What would have been William Jennings Bryan's 164th birthday was celebrated in Salem on Sunday with open houses and a program about Bryan's time growing up in Salem. The Salem Historical Commission he...
Mar 20, 2023 Historian Frank Brinkerhoff discusses William Jennings Bryan's childhood in Salem while speaking in front of the pulpit Bryan donated to the Salem Presbyterian Church in 1918. The Burning Bush on the front of the podium has been restored.
Marion County Farm Bureau free Ag Day Breakfast set for Tuesday
The Marion County Farm Bureau will celebrate National Ag Day with its Annual Ag Day Breakfast Tuesday morning at the Farm Bureau Office in Salem. A breakfast of scrambled eggs, pancakes, sausage, oran...
Mar 20, 2023 Serving at the 2022 Marion County Ag Day Breakfast.