As Christians, we must condemn Christian nationalism as a distortion of the gospel of Jesus and a threat to American democracy.

This letter is in response to the article in the Sauk Valley Weekend regarding the approval of an application for a solar farm on Kilgore Road in Lee County.

I keep hearing how young voters and protest voters don’t like Biden. I hope they read about Tiananmen Square and what happened to protesters under a dictatorship.

Cleaning up government requires diluting the authority of those who might peddle their influence.

General Assembly Democrats drafted a bill that significantly reduces financial liability to modify the 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act.

There might be some members who could be open to the idea, but there simply aren’t nearly enough of those folks right now to cobble together a majority of 30 votes in the Senate and 60 in the House and a governor’s signature.

Government is about working for the public. Politics is about perception.

The so-called “Super Outbreak” of tornadoes over April 3-4, 1974, remains one of the worst tornado events in American history. Few remember that it began in Illinois.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and if the insurance companies don’t see it that way, lawmakers might force their hands.