WASHINGTON -- Jim Chiavetta thinks Microplastics Inc. has a perfect business partner in IVP Plastics, MPI's new subsidiary.

ROCK ISLAND - A few days ago, I pulled into Walt's Service Station in Rock Island and as the manager filled my gas tank, I asked, "How's business?" Joe Schaecher glanced across the street at a competitor's station and said, "I'm not losing business to that guy.

With the first week of public hearings in the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump concluded, U.S. Sen.

The adjournment of the fall veto session Thursday night means a number of bills that failed to pass both chambers this week must wait for further action when the General Assembly returns on Jan. 28.

LACON - In the wake of declaring the doors of Marshall County officially open to marijuana-related businesses, at least in unincorporated areas, county officials will soon be considering a father-and-son team's effort to establish a cultivation and processing facility in a rural setting north of Washburn.