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Illinois' budget on track for deficit as new federal policies create challenges
Article Summary The governor's office now projects a $267 million deficit for the current fiscal year 2026 budget. Corporate tax cuts enacted at the federal level, combined with tariffs and declining ...
Oct 10, 2025 Storm clouds overlook the Illinois Capitol in Springfield in 2024. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Tremont WW2 veteran passes away days before birthday
TREMONT, Ill. - A World War Two veteran from Tazewell County has passed away. William Elliott, Junior of Tremont died this week just days before his birthday at the age of 103. He was in an artillery ...
Oct 10, 2025 (25 News)
White House budget chief says US government job cuts have begun
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration has begun laying off federal workers on Friday during the government shutdown, with a White House budget office spokesperson characterizin...
Oct 10, 2025 Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russell Vought speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 17, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
Man pleads guilty for role in 2023 shooting at Big Al's
PEORIA, Ill. - A 37-year-old man has pleaded guilty for his role in a shooting at Big Al's in downtown Peoria nearly two years ago. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says Tywahnn Tillman ple...
Oct 10, 2025 Tywahnn Tillman (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail July 2021)
Trump to announce US drug pricing deal at White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump is expected to make an announcement on Friday about lowering U.S. drug prices, according to a White House official who declined to provide any additional d...
Oct 10, 2025 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio attend a cabinet meeting at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 9, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Gazans stream towards wrecked homes as Israeli forces pull back under ceasefire
JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Thousands of displaced Palestinians streamed back towards their abandoned homes on Friday after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect and Israeli troops bega...
Oct 10, 2025 Palestinians walk through a damaged neighborhood in the aftermath of an Israeli operation, after Israel's government ratified a ceasefire with Hamas, in Gaza City October 10, 2025. REUTERS/ Ebrahim Hajjaj
Judge calls feds 'unreliable,' temporarily blocks National Guard deployment to Illinois
Article Summary A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Illinois without the consent of Gov. JB Pritzker, ruling the Department of...
Oct 10, 2025 A group of people in military fatigues walks into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Thursday, Oct. 9. National Guard troops were deployed to the facility earlier in the day. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Venezuela's opposition leader Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO (Reuters) -Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country, receiving the award despite U...
Oct 10, 2025 Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela January 9, 2025. REUTERS/Maxwell Briceno
Chicago ICE raids, National Guard troops prompt new school leaflets: 'Know your rights'
CHICAGO (Reuters) -On a chilly morning outside Nash Elementary School in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, teachers greeted students with the usual high-fives and hugs, while handing out sheets wi...
Oct 10, 2025 A person holds "Defend your rights" flyers outside Nash Elementary School, amid U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's increased presence in the Chicago area, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., September 4, 2025, in this screengrab from a video. REUTERS/Eric Cox
Famed Loyola-Chicago chaplain Sister Jean dies at 106
Longtime Loyola-Chicago men's basketball chaplain Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt died on Thursday at age 106, the school announced. Known simply as Sister Jean, she gained international fame in 2018 when...
Oct 10, 2025 Mar 24, 2018; Atlanta, GA, USA; Loyola Ramblers team chaplain Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt celebrates after defeating Kansas State Wildcats in the championship game of the South regional of the 2018 NCAA Tournament at Philips Arena. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports
