Although it’s only mid-November, the weather’s taken quite the wintery turn. While we’re laying in supplies for our Thanksgiving dinners, we may find ourselves stocking up on other comfort foods, as well. There are scientific reasons we crave high calorie treats, especially this time of year.  

An advocacy group is calling on Illinois to make higher education more equitable for students.  It says that means changing the way it funds post-secondary schooling.

Before they dug into the numbers, Kyle Westbrook said his group wanted to try to reframe the conversation around the cost of college in Illinois.

There are many things I don’t understand about our society. I often verbalize those annoyances to my family where I’m usually met with my daughter accusing me of being an “old man yelling at a cloud.” 

November is Adoption Awareness Month. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is launching "What’s Your Connection?".

As part of the campaign, state officials distributed 10,000 rubber bracelets and paper chains. DCFS spokesperson Jen Florent explained why.

“The idea behind the paper chain and the bracelets is to show what everyone’s connection to adoption is, so that adoption is not a stigma, it’s something that is out in the mainstream.”

After Jesus said the law is summed up in “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. And love your neighbor as yourself,” a hot shot preacher type piped up, “Who is my neighbor?”

“There was a man beat up by robbers and left to die,” Jesus said. He went on to talk about how the hot shot preacher types walked on by. It was the outsider, the hated Samaritan who stopped and helped the man, putting him up at an inn with plenty of money for his care. Jesus told the hot shot, “Go and do likewise.” I bet Jesus knew who the man needed to tend.

NIU students and DeKalb community members demanded accountability this Saturday with a protest.  It was a follow up to a controversial arrest this summer.

The DeKalb County State's Attorney's office wants to help veterans avoid jail time for certain crimes. The Stacia Hollinshead Veterans Diversion Program is named after a former assistant state’s attorney and Army veteran. Hollinshead was killed in March. Her ex-husband was charged with the murder.

The goal of the program is to provide treatment based-sentences.