About 14,654 Southeast Illinois residents – or about 40.6 percent of the region’s population – were on food stamp rolls in January 2017, according to a Southeast Illinois News analysis of 66 Illinois welfare offices
While veterans watched live from the Quincy Veterans Home, Sens. Paul Schimpf (R-Waterloo) and Dale Righter (R-Mattoon) discussed communications during the Legionella outbreak at the site and why the outbreak even occurred during a Senate-House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing Monday.
In the last election, 55 assessors in 36 counties, including one in Wayne County, were illegally placed on the ballot and elected, according to the Edgar County Watchdogs.
City of Belle Prairie, Village of Maunie and Village of Johnsonville top the list in SE Illinois with the lowest spending per capita in 2017, Illinois State Comptroller financial reports show.