On this return from the Independence Day holiday, Harrisburg superintendent Michael Gauch spoke with Tom Miller about the stop gap budget approved by lawmakers and Governor Rauner last week. Gauch explains more on what schools in southern Illinois...

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin joins us to talk about several issues, including the ongoing crisis in the Middle East....

Steve Brown, former journalist and spokesman for the Illinois Speaker of the House, joins The Morning Newswatch. Image: Public Relations Association of Central Illinois...