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)

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...

Gov. JB Pritzker said political leaders - starting with President Donald Trump - need to do more to condemn political violence. "He actively fans the flames of division, as he did on Friday, regularly advocates violence for political retribution, and in more than one case, declares we are at war, not with a foreig...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - Bloomington-Normal community members gathered downtown Saturday to protest what they call unwanted federal intervention in Illinois. The event, "Bloomington-Normal Stands with Chicago," was held on the lawn of the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts. It was organized by Bloom...

Ted Dabrowski, the leader of a conservative research publication, officially announced Friday he will run for Illinois governor in the 2026 Republican primary. Dabrowski's Wirepoints.org publishes research and commentary on state policy issues and advocates for conservative solutions on pensions, taxes, governance and...

CHICAGO - Sen. Bill Cunningham, a Chicago Democrat with a reputation for taking charge of energy and climate change legislation, will step down at the end of his current term. Before leaving in January 2027, Cunningham has a long to-do list. Near the top of that list: shepherding potentially massive legislation that c...

Jim Edgar, Illinois' 38th governor who served from 1991 to 1999, died Sunday after disclosing an aggressive cancer diagnosis earlier this year. He was 79. Though he'd been out of power for 26 years - more time than the two decades he spent in office as an elected official - the former governor was still active in Illin...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - The McLean County Board and the Twin Cities met last night to discuss the terms of an audit, regarding the sales tax agreement, after confusion sparked for the cities earlier this week. "The meeting last night was really to try to hammer through what would fit within the scope of the aud...