Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, observes action on the Senate floor during the last week of the 2025 legislative session. Harmon was the sponsor of a bill to reform the Prisoner Review Board. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - Bloomington Normal's state Representative said she would not support a statewide tax to save Chicago transit, which is facing a fiscal cliff by January 2026. "We would be actually then paying for transit up in Chicago, and that's something I've been very opposed to from the beginning," s...

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - Police here are seeking the public's help find two people accused of damaging a menorah earlier this month. According to a post on the Normal Police Department's Facebook page, two people damaged a menorah located in the 200 block of South Linden Street, at the Chabad House, on Sept. 5. The two, w...

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - McLean County Unit 5 School District took the unsung heroes of a modern education system out to lunch as a way to show their appreciation. Tuesday, Sept. 16 is National IT Professional Day, where people around the country celebrate the people who work behind the scenes to make sure all of the tech...

A legislative oversight panel formally objected Tuesday to a new administrative rule that temporarily allows the Illinois Department of Corrections to withhold mail from incarcerated people and instead deliver electronically scanned copies of correspondence they receive from the outside. That objection does not block t...

EUREKA, Ill. (WMBD) - A Southern Illinois man has been arrested for allegedly trying to travel to meet a child and grooming, according to the Woodford County Sheriff's Office. Matthew A. Cornes, 32, of Lawrenceville, was arrested on the charges as well as indecent solicitation of a child, said Chief Deputy Dennis Tipsw...

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - The town of Normal is now allowing pet owners to increase the number of pets they can own. At Monday's council meeting, councilmembers voted to increase the number of pets to three animals per species. If you have two cats and two dogs, you can now have three of each. The agenda packet said it all...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - Home Sweet Home Ministries has started collecting food donations for their "Big Give" event to use for their Thanksgiving "Give Thanks" Event this year. "Right now we're kind of in the give phase where we're just asking for the community's help to collect all the meal...