Week 9 football scores from throughout the Central Illinois area

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October 21, 2023

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WEEK 9

Big Twelve

Normal West 20, Champaign Centennial 10, 2nd

Champaign Central at Peoria Richwoods

Danville 35, Urbana 0, 2nd

Normal Community 37, Peoria Manual 0, 2nd

Peoria at Peoria Notre Dame

Central State Eight

Springfield Southeast 14, Decatur Eisenhower 0, 1st

Normal University 21, Jacksonville 21, 2nd

Chatham Glenwood 21, Lincoln 0, 2nd

Rochester 21, Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin 7, 2nd

Springfield Lanphier at Springfield

Heart of Illinois (Large)

Downs Tri-Valley 21, Eureka 7, 2nd

El Paso-Gridley 14, Tremont 6, 1st

Deer Creek-Mackinaw at Colfax Ridgeview-Lexington

Heart of Illinois (Small)

Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley 6, Heyworth 0, 1st

Minonk Fieldcrest at LeRoy

Illini Prairie

Chillicothe Illinois Valley Central 7, Rantoul 0, 1st

Fairbury Prairie Central 15, Bloomington Central Catholic 7, 2nd

St. Joseph-Ogden 14, Paxton-Buckley-Loda 6, 2nd

Tolono Unity at Monticello

Lincoln Prairie

Arcola 28, Cerro Gordo-Bement 6, 2nd

Argenta-Oreana at Toledo Cumberland

Nokomis 14, Sangamon Valley/Tri-City 3, 2nd

Sullivan-Okaw Valley 13, Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond 12, 2nd

Villa Grove at Oakland Tri-County

Sangamo

Maroa-Forsyth 21, Athens 14, 2nd

New Berlin 7, Pleasant Plains 7, 2nd

Pittsfield 14, Riverton 0, 1st

Stanford Olympia 8, Petersburg PORTA 7, 1st

Williamsville 28, Auburn 0, 2nd

South Central

Greenville 7, Virden North Mac 6, 1st

Piasa Southwestern 21, Hillsboro 0, half

Litchfield 3, Vandalia 0, 2nd

Staunton 7, Pana 6, 2nd

Non-Conference

Mt. Zion 13, Breese Mater Dei 0, 1st

Moweaqua Central A&M 15, Carthage Illini West 6, 2nd

Decatur MacArthur 20, Bloomington 3, 2nd

Effingham 34, Centralia 13, 2nd

Fisher at Macon Meridian (Sat.)

Highland 24, Decatur St. Teresa 13, 2nd

Marion 14, Mattoon 8, 2nd

Tuscola 41, Oblong 0, 2nd

Charleston 14, Salem 7, 2nd

Nashville 18, Shelbyville 0, 2nd

Taylorville 21, Bethalto Civic Memorial 6, 2nd

Warrensburg-Latham at Chester

Other

Dwight 7, Ottawa Marquette 7, 2nd

Wilmington 13, Streator 0, 2nd

8-player football

Flanagan-Cornell-Woodland 49, Farmer City Blue Ridge 6, 3rd

Kincaid South Fork at Decatur Unity Christian (Sat.)

Champaign St. Thomas More at Martinsville (Sat.)

Contact Justin Conn at (217) 421-7909. Follow him on Twitter: @jconnHR

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Whimsical DuPage County, Illinois video on cicadas attracts Stephen Colbert’s attention

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May 10, 2024

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Whimsical DuPage County, Illinois video on cicadas attracts Stephen Colbert’s attention

CHICAGO (CBS) — The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County has been getting a lot of buzz for an entertaining video it posted on periodical cicadas.

On Wednesday of last week, the forest preserve district featured “The Life Cycle of a 17-Year Cicada,” in which district ecology supervisor Tom Velat explained how cicadas emerge from the ground, crawl out of their exoskeletal shells, and acquire their dark brown to black color, orange wings, and red eyes after a few days.

The video also describes the mating cycle – with the help of a man in a cicada costume beating bongos and tossing out a pickup line as he sat in a tree. Actual male cicadas use their tymbals to generate sounds in hopes of attracting a female mate, and make a lot of noise in doing so.

Another actor had a few interesting tasks in playing a larval cicada.

This past Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert—an alum, of course, of Chicago’s The Second City—noticed the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County video on “The Late Show.”

“Let me just say when I was struggling for acting work in Illinois, I would have killed for the part of cicada in larval stage,” Colbert said in his monologue. “But just like everything else, the part would have gone to Steve Carell. He just had that certain je ne sais-cada.”

This did not escape the notice of Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, where President Daniel Hebreard posted a whimsical message to Colbert on Thursday.

“I have a once-in-a-lifetime offer for you. We want you to be a part of our sequel – ‘Informational Cicada Video II, After Emergence!’” Hebreard said in the video, as a mock title card appeared showing what appeared to be an AI art approximation of Chicago being set upon by an apocalyptic storm of fire and swarming insects, along with one 17-year cicada hovering upfront.

Hebreard emphasized that this was a “limited-time offer,” as the cicada emergence is about to begin. In some places, it already has.

“So if you want to join us, we’re waiting,” Hebreard advised Colbert, “but if you’re too busy, we can always bring in Steve Carell.”

Adam Harrington

Adam Harrington is a web producer at CBS News Chicago.

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Tornadoes confirmed to hit southern Illinois during Wednesday’s storms

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May 9, 2024

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Tornadoes confirmed to hit southern Illinois during Wednesday’s storms

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (KFVS) – Multiple tornadoes have been confirmed to have hit southern Illinois during severe storms on Wednesday, May 8.

According to the National Weather Service in Paducah, at least three tornadoes touched down on Wednesday.

Storm survey teams found an EF1 tornado in Cora and Jackson County in southern Illinois. The tornado lasted from 12:01 p.m. to 12:03 p.m. The maximum wind speeds were 108 mph with a path length of 1.25 miles and a width of 100 yards. At this time, there is one reported injury and no reported fatalities.

An EF0 tornado was confirmed to be in the Lake of Egypt area in Williamson County. The tornado lasted from 4:04 p.m. to 4:11 p.m. The maximum wind speeds were 80 mph with a path length of 6.61 miles and a width of 25 yards. At this time, there are no reported injuries or fatalities.

On the Jackson/Williamson County line, an EF1 tornado was confirmed. The tornado lasted from 3:10 p.m. to 3:26 p.m. The maximum winds were 90 mph with a path length of 4.58 miles and a width of 50 yards. At this time, there are no reported injuries or fatalities.

We will continue to update as more information becomes available.

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Thousands Of Illinois Youth At Risk of Losing Access to After-School Programs

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May 9, 2024

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Thousands Of Illinois Youth At Risk of Losing Access to After-School Programs

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SPRINGFIELD – Advocates for community-based after-school programs say as many as 40,000 youths statewide could lose access to tutoring services, recreation and other extracurricular activities this summer unless Illinois lawmakers approve an infusion of funds to keep them going.

“The time is now for legislators to act to save after-school (programs),” Susan Stanton, executive director of Afterschool for Children and Teens, or ACT Now, said at a Statehouse rally Tuesday. “We literally only have weeks left before programs have to shut their doors. Staff will be laid off and families will be in crisis.”

ACT Now is a coalition of groups such as local YMCA chapters, Boys & Girls Club, and other community-based organizations that provide academic enrichment activities and other services during non-school hours for children and teens, particularly those attending high-minority, low-performing schools.

The programs that are at risk receive federal funding through the U.S. Department of Education’s Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.

That money flows through the Illinois State Board of Education, which awards competitive grants to local programs. Those grants are made in three-year or five-year cycles. At the end of that cycle, the grants can either be renewed or the organization can reapply through a new competitive grant process.

The problem facing many programs whose grant cycles are expiring is that in 2023, ISBE miscalculated how much money was available and made commitments to award more grants than the state could fund. As a result, many programs whose grant cycles are expiring cannot get them renewed because there is not enough funding available. Advocates are seeking $50 million in state funding to make up for the anticipated shortfall.

Stanton said programs serving about 6,000 students were forced to close at the end of the previous fiscal year, and without an injection of state funds, another 40,000 students will lose access to services after June 30 this year.

State Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, has proposed legislation that would commit $50 million a year in state funds for the 21^st Century Community Learning Centers.

“It’s not enough for us to say we support quality, safe and vibrant learning environments for our youth. We have to provide funding for that to happen,” Villivalam said. “I believe … that investing in childhood education is an investment in our future communities, and not something we should take lightly.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget proposal calls for about $234 million for after-school programs, most of which would come from federal money. But Stanton said that is a different program that sends funds for after-school programs directly to school districts, not to the community-based organizations that receive 21^stCentury Community Learning Center funding.

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