One killed in Jackson County crash

JACKSON COUNTY, IL. (WJPF) – One person is dead, another injured after a head on crash on US 51 in Jackson County. It happened around 9:45 A.M. Monday about a ½ mile south of the Truax Blacktop

Rauner administration reduced number of state patronage jobs

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A special counsel to former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says his administration reclassified thousands of state jobs that were once exempt from anti-patronage protections. Joe Hartzler tells The State Journal-Register that the administration