Moline-Coal Valley School District Superintendent Lanty McGuire will serve the district through the 2018-2019 school year after the school board recently voted to extend his contract.
Illinois is paying the price for not turning around its economy the same way its neighbors have, Brandi McGuire, Republican candidate for the District 72 state House seat, said.
A military veteran and the brother of a Republican working mother and activist who is running for Illinois' 72nd District House seat is attacking her Democratic opponent in two campaign ads that respond to suggestions that she would be soft on veterans issues.
The Illinois unemployment rate declined for the fourth straight month in August, the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced last week.
Illinois' public pension crisis has been bumped out of the headlines by the Nov. 8 presidential election and other attention-grabbers, but the crisis hasn't gone away, the vice president of a Chicago-based conservative think tank said in a recent article.