Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
In this special Spotlight episode, IFI’s Dave Smith sits down with Monte Larrick.
Monte Larrick served as Spotlight’s host and IFI’s Media Director who dedicated the 11 years he was at IFI to inform Illinois constituents on important issues with conciseness and clarity.
In this episode, Monte shares untold stories and experiences in his longtime career covering politics for Moody Radio.
This is a nostalgic episode you do not want to miss.… Continue Reading
Written by Peter Heck
Societies like ours don’t jump off ethical cliffs in a single leap. They drift toward them in the name of lofty sounding ideals like autonomy and empathy.
Illinois Senate Bill 1950 is a tragic example of this.
The bill allows doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to patients deemed “terminal” within six months.… Continue Reading
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
How should we view immigration from a biblical perspective?
Dr. Shando Valdez, a political consultant, clergy organizer, and senior pastor at New Jerusalem Baptist church in Chicago, answers this very question in this week’s Spotlight episode.
“[Jesus] understood that countries have laws, that countries have borders.”
This is an episode you will not want to miss.
Listen to “A Biblical Perspective on Immigration” anywhere you find podcasts or click the link!… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
Dr. Susan Monarez, PhD—a microbiologist, public health official, and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—testified yesterday before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. She alleged that she was fired for refusing to comply with directives from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which she said would have compromised scientific integrity.
According to Monarez, she was pressured to approve changes to the childhood vaccination schedule, including the possible removal of the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Big Medicine, Big Pharma, Bill Cassidy, CDC, COVID–19, Dr. Susan Monarez, Hepatitis-B vaccine, Rand Paul, Robert F. Kennedy Jr
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September 18, 2025 10:00 AM | 
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Written by David E. Smith
After a weekend of bloodshed—34 shot in Chicago, including a 5-year-old boy killed in his own home—Governor JB Pritzker, flanked by Mayor Brandon Johnson and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, had the audacity to declare with straight faces:
“There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention.”
For anyone who lives, works, or grew up in Chicago, the denial is staggering. Over the weekend alone, five people were killed, including the young child in Kenwood and a woman slain in a West Side mass shooting that left five others wounded.… Continue Reading
The following text is perhaps one of the most insightful appreciations of the Declaration ever pronounced. President Calvin Coolidge gave this speech in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926, marking the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. We hope you will find it encouraging.
‘If All Men Are Created Equal, That Is Final’
“If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us,
we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.”… Continue Reading
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
Would you be surprised to learn that all 14 Illinois Congressional Democrats voted against the protection of women and girls in sports?… Continue Reading
Written by Cameron Dominy
“Behold, now, the providence of God”
~William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (1630-51)
This Thursday, millions of Americans will come together for a strange little holiday we call Thanksgiving. Regretfully, the current climate of American politics means too many celebrations across the country will end in bitter resentment between family members, and a deepened divide in our public discourse. Our commemoration of the 1621 harvest feast between Native Americans and Protestant Separatists is often misconstrued, and seldom understood.… Continue Reading
