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Blackburn business students to assist with filing tax returns

CARLINVILLE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The business department at Blackburn College will be offering IRS tax law-certified volunteers to assist low-to-moderate income taxpayers seeking help filing their taxes or are unable to electronically file their returns due to lack of computer or Internet access. Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 20 through April 13, Blackburn business students who are certified under the Internal Revenue Service's Facilitated Self Assistance (FSA) program will offer filing assistance for individuals choosing to electronically file their tax returns. These […]

todayFebruary 18, 2018 78

Capital Area Region

Winter weather advisory in effect for immediate coverage area until Wednesday morning

NOKOMIS (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The immediate Heartland Newsfeed coverage area in central Illinois is under a winter weather advisory. The alert was issued at 3:34 a.m. via the National Weather Service in St. Louis, citing that the advisory is effect from 6 p.m. Tuesday evening running overnight until 6 a.m. Wednesday morning. A combination of ice and snow will culminate in rough travel conditions, which includes the morning commute on Wednesday. Total accumulation expected in the region is about a […]

todayFebruary 6, 2018 86

East Central Illinois Region

PARCC & ISBE analysis: area schools in need of improvement

MORRISONVILLE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- According to recent joint analysis of standardized testing by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), area school districts have a lot of room for improvement. A recently updated report card of all Illinois school districts from 2017 shows that 15.5 percent of Morrisonville Grade School students are meeting Common Core expectations and are ready for the next grade. 33 percent of students nearly met […]

todayJanuary 26, 2018 80

Business & Lifestyle

Federal grant application by Carlinville was for regional water “commission”

CARLINVILLE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- A recent investigation from the Edgar County Watchdogs, in their ongoing battle with the City of Carlinville, has revealed the City's 2016 grant application for Federal funding of a project on behalf of the Illinois Department of Agriculture. As discovered by ECWd's John Kraft, the intent and purpose of the grant was for "a preliminary engineering report to evaluate options" for development of a viable water supply, treatment and transmission system to serve a regional water […]

todayJanuary 21, 2018 97

Business & Lifestyle

COUNTRY Financial to award area students $20,000 in scholarships

NOKOMIS (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The Central Illinois COUNTRY Financial® representatives are offering ten $2,000 scholarships to college-bound students in the area. Students who graduated, or will graduate from Sangamon, Menard, Macoupin, Montgomery, Cass, Morgan and Greene county high schools have the opportunity to apply for the COUNTRY Financial Community Scholarship. More information about the COUNTRY Financial Community Scholarship and other scholarships offered through the Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln can be found now through December 31, 2017 at: http://www.cfll.org/Home.aspx Students may […]

todayJanuary 9, 2018 118

Capital Area Region

Wind chill advisory active until Sunday evening

ST. LOUIS (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Dangerously cold conditions will be present this weekend going into next week, according to an advisory and subsequent warning issued the National Weather Service in St. Louis at 10:59 a.m. Saturday morning. A wind chill advisory is in effect until noon on Tuesday, January 2. A wind chill warning is in effect until noon on New Year's Day, Monday, January 1. Dangerously cold wind chills can be expected, with the coldest being expected on Sunday […]

todayDecember 30, 2017 97

Business & Lifestyle

Proof standardized testing doesn’t work? 64% of students in Pleasant Plains fail annual tests, 59% fail English

PLEASANT PLAINS (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Academic results data released recently reveals 36 percent of Pleasant Plains Middle School students are considered on track for the next grade level, according to a Heartland Newsfeed analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card. The end-of-year tests known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, are administered to third- through eighth-graders in Illinois, testing them in reading and math based on Common Core standards. A composite score […]

todayDecember 28, 2017 79

Business & Lifestyle

Skillicorn calls for end to Illinois Municipal League annual conference

EAST DUNDEE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Responding to a Daily Herald report detailing the cost to taxpayers, Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) recently called for an end to the Illinois Municipal League’s annual conference, according to a release from the lawmaker. The conference, which took place from Sept. 21-23 at the Hilton Chicago, according to the event program, featured more than 50 sessions for municipal workers in fields ranging from finance and management to public safety and economic development. According to […]

todayDecember 19, 2017 72

Business & Lifestyle

Taxpayers cover costs of bad pension fund investment return predictions

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- As municipalities across the state determine how to spend taxpayers' money for the next year, they’re looking at what to expect for pension fund investment returns. Bad predictions can mean big costs to taxpayers and, when estimated returns on city pension fund investments are too generous, taxpayers have to pay up. The city of Springfield’s estimated returns were off enough to require an additional $600,000 the city didn’t budget for. That’s expected to impact other […]

todayDecember 19, 2017 98

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