By MAGGIE DOUGHERTY Capitol News Illinois mdougherty@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski is demanding to know why a building management company accused of failing to provide safe and clean living conditions in one of its Springfield-based apartment buildings has not taken action. Budzinski, ...

By WMBD TV NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - The Normal Fire Department is offering free fire alarm replacements and checking your current ones ahead of the holiday season. "They can get free smoke alarms just by letting us know we'll come out and install them free of charge," said Matt Swaney, public information officer...

By WMBD TV BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - The Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts broke records on Thursday last week, hosting Theresa Caputo Live! "The Experience" "The Long Island Medium was at the BCPA, and she set the venue record for gross sales with just over $104,000 over 1,100 people in the bu...

By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - Nearly six decades after becoming a lawyer, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been disbarred following his convictions on federal corruption charges - including bribery - earlier this year. The longtime Democratic power bro...

By WMBD TV PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - A gun was found in a student's locker at Tremont Middle School on Monday morning. Officers with the Tremont Police Department were called by school administrators to a report that a student had an unloaded gun in a locker, a post on the department's Facebook page said. "The student...

SPRINGFIELD - If advocates, stakeholders and members of the public were granted all their requests for public school funding next year, lawmakers would have to increase the state's K-12 education budget by nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars. That's the approximate total of all the requests that Illinois State B...

By WMBD TV NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - A rally was held in Uptown Normal on Monday afternoon in front of State Representative Daren LaHood's office to defend SNAP and federal healthcare cuts. "We are all constituents of Congressional District 16; Congressman LaHood's district. We need a representative who is going to wo...

By WMBD TV NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) - Two state championships in two months at University High School. In October, the boys golf team won a class 2A state title. Saturday night, the volleyball team joined the party by winning the class 3A state championship. The Pioneers have had a great volleyball program for years bu...