Illinois Municipal League Executive Director Brad Cole joins The Morning Newswatch.

Tom Miller sits down with Bob Sandidge, organizer of the Coal Miners Movement 2016 Facebook page, which has garnered nearly 20,000 likes in an effort to spread the word about how regulations are impacting the coal industry.

J. Fred Giertz, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and the author of U of I's Flash Index, joins The Morning Newswatch.