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Home Sweet Home Ministries will Give Big for Families in need this Thanksgiving
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 kin...
Sep 15, 2025 Matt Burgess. (Photo courtesy: Home Sweet Home Ministries)
Amid backlash, Pritzker calls for leaders - especially Trump - to tone down rhetoric
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...
Sep 15, 2025 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at the Illinois Democratic County Chairs’ Association annual breakfast meeting in Springfield on Aug. 13, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Bloomington-Normal groups rally in solidarity with Chicago against ICE actions
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 wi...
Sep 15, 2025 The rally was outside of the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts. (Photo courtesy: File)
Conservative researcher Ted Dabrowski enters Illinois GOP primary for governor
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 res...
Sep 15, 2025 Ted Dabrowski talks to fellow Republicans at a State Central Committee meeting in Springfield on Aug. 14, 2025.
As energy bill continues to take shape, a key Senate architect plans to retire
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 Januar...
Sep 15, 2025 Sen. Bill Cunningham, D-Chicago, is pictured on the floor of the Illinois Senate on May 21, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Jim Edgar, Illinois' 1990s-era moderate GOP governor, dies at 79
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 - ...
Sep 15, 2025 Former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar speaks at a May 28 event in Springfield to dedicate the reading room at the Illinois State Library in his honor. Edgar helped secure funding for the facility when he was secretary of state. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Audit to clarify sales tax distribution in McLean County
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 earlie...
Sep 12, 2025
McLean County Health Department wins excellence award
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - The McLean County Health Department announced on Thursday that it received the Public Health Program of Excellence Award. The award was from the Illinois Public Health Assoc...
Sep 12, 2025
U.S. Transportation Department pulls grant from McLean County
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - More than $600,000 awarded for improvement projects in McLean County last year are no longer coming to central Illinois. The $675,000 BUILD Raise Grant was originally awarde...
Sep 12, 2025 (Photo courtesy: File)
'It's a gut punch:' Local lawmakers react to Charlie Kirk's death
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - Some local lawmakers are devastated after conservative media giant Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a public event. On Wednesday, Kirk was speaking and debating students at Ut...
Sep 11, 2025 (Photo courtesy: Turning Point USA/Charlie Kirk Facebook)
