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Watch Decatur City LimitlessPromoters of the city of Decatur are trying to polish the community's tarnished image. The town has suffered in recent decades…

Charities are finding themselves asked to step in to help pay for services and programs that were previously in the government's domain. It seems to be an…

Guess what? State tax cuts don’t improve economic growth.No, that’s not an April Fool’s Day zinger.Rather, it’s the conclusion of a report issued last…

Thursday's unemployment numbers show Decatur is once again lagging the rest of Illinois. That long-term trend is partly responsible for a new law aimed at…

It’s a land-use squeeze play: Rockford is expanding eastward, while Chicagoland is creeping westward from McHenry County. Boone County is sandwiched in…

Two decades ago Joliet faced an economic crisis.A national depression hammered industry and related businesses, and layoffs pushed the local unemployment…