NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - Some 300 workers at Illinois State University are walking the picket line early Wednesday morning after contract negotiations broke down Tuesday night. The walk out began about 6 a.m. as workers with AFSCME, Local 1110, formed lines across the campus. Buildings, grounds and dining services employe...

By GEORGIA EPIPHANIOU Medill Illinois News Bureau news@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary A lack of domestic workforce participation in agriculture pushes Illinois farmers to employ foreign workers through the temporary H-2A non-immigrant visa program. Illinois' employment of farmers through the visa program has ...

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - Heartland Community College announced the new dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, set to start at the end of the spring semester. Karla Huffman has been a teacher for 28 years, ten years at HCC and 18 years at Illinois State University. With the College of Liberal Arts and So...

GOODFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) - A North Carolina woman was arrested recently by the Goodfield Police Department in connection with a fraud scheme that resulted in more than $39,000 being taken from more than 30 people. William Lally, Goodfield's police chief, said that Laylah Unique Blount, 19, of Kinston, N.C., was arrested ...

By WMBD TV BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - The Bloomington-Normal Water Reclamation District is receiving a $5 million grant from the state to help fund sewer infrastructure upgrades. The grant will help fund a Three Phase Project which will install about six and a half miles worth of sewer pipes, stretching from the BNWRD ...

By WMBD TV BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - From the early age of 16, Carla Barnes-Wheeler was essentially on her own, having to navigate the world through her family's adversity. "I didn't come from privilege. I came from perseverance," said Carla Barnes-Wheeler, this week's CI Hero and the Circuit Court Judge of ...

By JACQUES ABOU-RIZK Medill Illinois News Bureau news@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - In downtown Chicago, people have been spotting Google's Waymo automated vehicles testing and mapping the Windy City's streets. For now, the autonomous vehicles must be driven by a human, as the industry seeks the endorsement of stat...

By BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary Republicans are blaming Democratic policies, such as unfunded mandates on local governments and school districts, for raising property taxes while failing to provide other financial assistance. A report by the Cook County Treasur...