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* What’s going on? Keep it Illinois-centric please…

posted by Isabel Miller
Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 7:41 am

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Like many other schools we started ACT testing today. The system crashed and most cannot get in to test. Awesome!

If you want to know why scores are low, technical issues have been pervasive for years. Paper tests are totally reliable and research says kids do better with paper and pencil tests.

Comment by JS Mill Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 8:54 am
It’s April 8, 2025. Where is Dick Durbin’s retirement press release?

Comment by hisgirlfriday Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 10:34 am
Got a flyer in the mail yesterday telling me about a spring sale at the local cemetery. I can save 20% on a full burial package. Do they know something I don’t know??

Comment by Friendly Bob Adams Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 10:35 am
==Do they know something I don’t know??==

I’m pretty sure you know the same thing.:)

Comment by don the legend Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 10:38 am
== It’s April 8, 2025. Where is Dick Durbin’s retirement press release? ==

To be fair, he’s very busy watching others oppose Trump.

Comment by TJ Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 12:54 pm
In 2002, I got on an elevator alone with Dick Durbin. He gave me a look as if we was expecting me to recognize and acknowledge him.

Anyway, I didn’t and I got off the elevator at the next floor. The Senator, however, seems to still be enjoying the ride.

Comment by TearOne Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 1:40 pm
Can you imagine if a Democrat was crashing the stock market and talking about “economic revolution”

Comment by jolietj Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 3:05 pm
If you are actually trying to get into the State Journal Register website as of now (shortly before 3:30), the web address is still the same but you get redirected to the Louisville Courier Journal’s page. With no Springfield headlines.

Same deal with the Peoria Journal Star and Rockford Register Star.

Hopefully it is just maintenance or updates but this seems to me like a precursor to every local newspaper going USA Today-esque and having little or no “local news.” While raising print and online subscriptions and upholding the virtues of “investing in journalism.”

Comment by Leatherneck Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 3:26 pm
- To be fair, he’s very busy watching others oppose Trump. -

That alone should inform voters as to Durbin’s proper decision…if not Durbin.

Comment by Dotnonymous x Tuesday, Apr 8, 25 @ 7:07 pm