In the 2023-24 school year, 49.6% of the students in East Richland Community Unit School District 1 passed the ELA portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
There was one offender convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons living in Effingham County released on parole during the fourth quarter of 2024, according to Illinois Department of Corrections data obtained by the East Central Reporter.
The heated political climate in Illinois shows no signs of cooling down as tensions rise over a series of proposed bills filed by Democratic legislators.
State Rep. Chris Miller (R-Oakland) is calling on parents and local school boards to push back against the Illinois High School Association’s (IHSA) refusal to comply with a federal executive order restricting transgender girls from participating in female sports.
In the 2023-24 school year, 50.3% of the students in Stewardson-Strasburg Community Unit School District 5A passed the ELA portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
The Family Life Center in Effingham and HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital collaborated with St. Anthony High School for their annual "Window to the Womb" event.
There are no new registered sex offenders living in Shelby County in the week ending April 6 compared to the week before, according to the Illinois Police Sex Offender Registry.
In the 2023-24 school year, 52.4% of the students in Tuscola Community Unit School District 301 passed the ELA portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.