Category Archives: Headlines
WJBC Back to School Shoe Drive with COUNTRY Financial Rep. Melissa Isenburg
It's time again for our Back to School Shoe Drive to make sure that local kids in our area have a pair of new gym shoes to head back to school! We are once again teaming with Country Financial Represe...
Aug 01, 2025
Prosecutors say they don't oppose release of DCFS timeline in foster child's death
By BETH HUNDSDORFER Capitol News Illinois bhundsdorfer@capitolnewsillinois.com The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services for weeks has repeatedly refused to release a timeline detailing ...
Jul 31, 2025 The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has come under fire for not releasing information on the death of a foster child in Fairview Heights in May 2024. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
State leaders seek more transparency from insurance companies
By BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is calling on Illinois lawmakers to pass legislation banning auto insuran...
Jul 31, 2025 Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias speaks at an event in Springfield in May 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
McLean County Health and Carle host student vaccine clinic
MCLEAN COUNTY, Ill. (WMBD) - The McLean County Health Department partnered with Carle Health Services to provide back-to-school vaccines and physicals for students in McLean County. "We are focusing o...
Jul 31, 2025 (Photo courtesy: McLean County Health Department/File)
State leaders seek more transparency from insurance companies
By BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is calling on Illinois lawmakers to pass legislation banning auto insuran...
Jul 30, 2025 Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias speaks at an event in Springfield in May 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Heartland Community College to offer free art class to veteran students
NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - A new partnership will give veteran students at Heartland Community College a chance to learn more about the arts. Heartland will be teaming up with the non-profit CreatiVets to ...
Jul 30, 2025 Heartland Community College. (Photo courtesy: File)
ISU, OSF prepare area athletic trainers for emergency situations
NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - On Tuesday, Illinois State and OSF partnered together to further develop training in crisis situations with local athletic trainers from Blo-No area high schools and college stud...
Jul 30, 2025 Illinois State University. (Photo courtesy: WJBC)
Former St. Louis Cardinal Adam Wainwright to perform in Bloomington
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - A former MLB player and rising country artist will perform in Bloomington in October. Former St. Louis Cardinal Adam Wainwright will be at the Bloomington Center for the Per...
Jul 30, 2025 Photo courtesy: BCPA/Facebook)
Trump administration requests voter data from Illinois elections board
By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary The Trump administration sent the Illinois State Board of Elections a letter this week requesting troves of vote...
Jul 30, 2025 The Illinois State Board of Elections office is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Bloomington man sentenced to almost three decades for weapons charges
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - A Bloomington man was sentenced Tuesday to 28 years in prison for being an armed habitual criminal. Leon Ford, 27, was sentenced in McLean County Circuit Court after being f...
Jul 30, 2025 The man now heads to prison. (Photo courtesy: File)
