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)

CHICAGO - The Trump administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the immediate deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois, calling the decisions by lower court judges blocking the activation of guardsmen "indefensible" and "micromanaging." In a 43-page filing, the administrati...

DOWNS, Ill. (WMBD) - One person is dead after a two vehicle crash near Downs in McLean County on Saturday. The crash happened on U.S. Route 150 at Cedar Street at about 3:25 p.m., according to preliminary information from the Illinois State Police. The report said one car traveling eastbound on Route 150 hit another ve...

LE ROY, Ill. (WMBD) - Part of Interstate 74 closed on Saturday after a truck crash near Le Roy. The Illinois State Police responded to the crash that occurred at around 10:33 a.m., said ISP Trooper Shannon Barrea. The crash involved two semi trucks that jackknifed. Preliminary information said that one person was taken...

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - An Illinois State University teaching assistant was arrested for allegedly "disrupting two informational tabling events," campus officials said. Derek Lopez, 27 of El Paso, Ill., was arrested by the Illinois State University Police on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal damage to ...

UPDATED (10:30 p.m.) - Questioning of the first 12 has been underway for more than 30 minutes. These were the first 12 to be questioned and it's highly likely that some if not most will be removed. Each side gets a certain amount of "strikes" for either cause or just because they feel that person wouldn't be ...

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - A roadway in the town of Normal will close on Friday for street resurfacing. Greenbriar Drive between Parkway Plaza Drive and Fort Jessie Road will close starting at 6 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 17, project engineer Eric Herbst said. Herbst recommended using either Susan Drive or Veterans Parkway, via P...

SPRINGFIELD - Since early July, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has been a familiar face on Illinois television screens, with the Schaumburg Democrat telling the state's voters in a set of biographical ads to "just call me Raja" as he campaigns for retiring Sen. Dick Durbin's seat. Krishnamoorthi's campaign spent a...