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Swastikas painted on 200 headstones in Illinois, suspect arrested

 GLEN CARBON (UPI) -- Police in southwestern Illinois arrested a man suspected of vandalizing cemetery headstones with swastikas. Nearly 200 headstones were found spray-painted Saturday morning, less than two days before Memorial Day. "They also painted swastikas on our old office building and on two of our family estate mausoleums," Mark Johnson, grounds superintendent at the cemetery, told the Belleville News-Democrat. The vandalism took place in a cemetery in Glen Carbon, a small town located 19 miles northeast of St. Louis. […]

todayMay 28, 2018 13

Business & Lifestyle

Illinois counties declare ‘sanctuary’ status for gun owners

SPRINGFIELD/CHICAGO (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Several rural counties in Illinois are taking a stand for gun rights by utilizing a word that conservatives associate with liberal policies as an attempt to skirt the law: sanctuary. Five counties at minimum have recently passed resolutions declaring themselves as sanctuary counties for gun owners. It is a reference to Chicago, which has become a sanctuary city that doesn't cooperate with aspects of immigration enforcement from the Federal government. These resolutions are intended to put the […]

todayMay 7, 2018 4

East Central Illinois Region

UPDATE: No relationship between skeletal remains found and missing Macoupin County woman

LITCHFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Updates and further developments regarding the discovery of skeletal remains near Litchfield's Lake Lou Yaeger have confirmed that it is not that of Macoupin County resident Denita Hedden, who has been missing since January. "There was no apparent relationship between the disappearance of Denita Hedden and this case," according to Illinois State police spokesperson Calvin Brown, who spoke at the press conference. The remains were found late Wednesday afternoon by a utility worker who was clearing […]

todayApril 27, 2018 22

Capital Area Region

Illinois Senate panel tentatively OKs plan to feed wild deer

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- People are not supposed to feed wild deer in Illinois. Baiting deer for hunting is illegal, and the state's Department of Natural Resources says feeding wild deer can spread disease. But some people in some places in Illinois could soon give some deer something to eat. State Sen. Chapin Rose recently told lawmakers in Springfield that there are veterinarians who say feeding deer outside of hunting season will help keep the animals healthy. "The healthful […]

todayApril 21, 2018 1

Business & Lifestyle

McCALEB OP-ED: Collapse of Harvey’s finances signals what’s to come across Illinois

(Illinois News Network) -- The unfolding fiscal crisis in south suburban Harvey should send shivers down the spines of public employees and retirees across Illinois. It also should give pause to taxpayers, who already pay the highest combined local and state taxes in the country and who continually are being forced to pay more because of unsustainable public pension benefits and a culpable state government that refuses to do anything about them. Last fall, Illinois' First District Appellate Court ordered the city of […]

todayApril 21, 2018 20

Capital Area Region

Legislators debate equal parenting laws in Springfield this week

SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Illinois' divorce laws will likely be up for debate this week where lawmakers are slated to hear about a bill supporters believe will scrap the prejudicial, unfair existing system of parenting time that has proven to be biased against one parent and rarely ever see their children. Several states are either considering or enacting changes to divorce laws that would move away from one-parent guardianship to a fairer, equal parenting model with more flexibility. Kentucky is […]

todayApril 9, 2018 5

Business & Lifestyle

COMMENTARY: Illinois legislature considering allowing tax bills to be paid with cryptocurrency

A recent topic of discussion in the Illinois House may become a point of discussion in next week's scheduled hearing of the House Revenue and Finance Committee, slated for 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11. What is this point of discussion, you ask? A proposed bill filed by Democratic state representative Michael Zalewski (also the chair of mentioned committee), House Bill 5335, may allow for the payment of tax bills with cryptocurrency, but there is much confusion from the vague […]

todayApril 5, 2018 11

Capital Area Region

ISBE officials to meet prior to automatic voter registration launch this summer

SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Election officials from the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE) want to give voters and local election officials another chance to get some answers prior to automatic voter registration taking effect this summer, with the first phase beginning in July. Matthew Dietrich, a representative from ISBE, stated that the state's election authority want to give everyone a chance to ask any last-minute questions. ISBE has already heard from lawmakers and leaders in Chicago and Springfield, with […]

todayApril 5, 2018 4

Business & Lifestyle

Ives and Skillicorn blame Rauner for the shrinking net worth of Illinois

SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) -- While the blame game is well underway between Democrats and Republicans, both in the Illinois General Assembly and in the gubernatorial race, Republicans are taking the time to blame the state's continued losses in net worth on Gov. Bruce Rauner. Republican legislators shifting the blame on Rauner include his former primary opponent Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) and Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee). “Bruce Rauner needs to apologize to the base of his party,” Skillicorn told Heartland […]

todayApril 4, 2018 10

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