(Photo By Flickr User Joe Bielawa) Country singer Luke Bryan is helping out students majoring in agriculture at Illinois State University with a new scholarship. According to WRSP/WCCU-TV, four students were awarded scholarship money from the Luke Bryan Farm Tour Scholarship at Illinois State University: -Joshua McWilliams, a graduate student studying agriculture education and leadership…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User JJBers) Kohl’s has announced plans to hire 90,000 seasonal employees. It will hold a seasonal hiring day at select stores around the country on Saturday, October 20, 2018. “Kohl’s wants workers willing to help deliver an excellent shopping experience to customers,” said Kohl’s vice president Ryan Festerling. The seasonal associates will…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Jay Reed) Newsline: Champaign, IL Get ready for some waffle fries, fresh lemonade, grilled chicken nuggets, chicken biscuits, and sandwiches, Champaign Area & Vicinity, Chick-fil-A is coming your way! Chick-fil-A will open on the former Ruby Tuesday lot in the 2300 block of North Prospect Avenue. According to WAND-TV,…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User rob_rob2001) A company is hiring people to be pizza taste-testers from home. Ooni will pay 10 people anywhere from $300 to $1,000 a day to make and critique pizzas, according to CNBC Make It & WAND-TV. It will even send wood-fired pizza ovens to the people hired and pay for…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User kanonn) Judges have awarded this years Nobel Prize for Medicine to researchers who investigated whether roller coaster can help remove kidney stones. The spoof awards honor scientific achievements that make people laugh, then think. The two professors Dr. Marc Mitchell and Dr. David Wartinger got the idea after a patient came…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Joshua Miller) “Get Ready, Get Ready, Get Ready For IHSA Football Coming To Chambana Land!” Just to name a few, high school teams like Peoria Notre Dame, Bloomington, Urbana, and Champaign St. Thomas More, will play football at University Of Illinois’ Memorial Stadium coming this Saturday! Peoria Notre Dame’s football team…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Edsel Little) Newsline: Xenia, OH The Agriculture Department says Bob Evans Farms is recalling nearly 47,000 pounds (21,318 kilograms) of pork sausage links because it might contain pieces of plastic. The items have establishment number “EST 6785” and were sold in Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User anthony_goto) According to Variety.com & Good Black News, all four winners in the guest actor categories were black for the first time in Television Academy Awards history. Presented last weekend at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, Tiffany Haddish won best guest actress in a comedy for hosting “Saturday Night Live,”…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Josh Hallett) “Are you ready for some HBCU Football?” If so, then this is just a family reminder to let you know that you don’t want to miss the Chicago Football Classic in Chicago, IL & the Circle City Classic in Indianapolis, IN happening on the 4th Saturday…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Alan Light) The University of Illinois’, total enrollment is up 2.7 percent. University of Illinois says it has a system-wide record number of students enrolled for the fall semester, including an eighth straight year of record enrollment at its main campus in Champaign-Urbana. According to The Associated Press & WGEM-TV,…… MORE
