Category Archives: Local News
MCHD reports 164 new cases of coronavirus
McLean County’s rolling positivity rate inched down to 5.3%. (Graphic courtesy McLean County Health Department) By Neil DoyleBLOOMINGTON – McLean County added 164 new cases of coronav...
Apr 12, 2021
Reditus Laboratories in Pekin identifies 4 COVID-19 variants
Fourteen other samples detected the Santa Clara variant and two were the South African variant. (Photo courtesy: Reditus)By Heart of Illinois ABCPEKIN – Reditus Laboratories announced over the w...
Apr 12, 2021
U of I professor commissioned to compose a piece of classical music from coronavirus
Depiction of proteins becoming music in computer form. (Dave Dahl/WJBC) By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – What does coronavirus sound like?A University of Illinois music professor was commissioned ...
Apr 07, 2021
111 new cases of coronavirus in McLean County
71 additional people were released from isolation, now 15,216 have recovered. (Graphic courtesy McLean County Health Department) By Neil DoyleBLOOMINGTON – The McLean County Health Departme...
Apr 07, 2021
UPDATED: High bond set for Bloomington man charged with stabbing his brother
Inez J. Gleghorn, 38, of Bloomington. (Photo courtesy: Bloomington Police Department)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMINGTON – Charges filed against a Bloomington man on Tuesday accuse him of stabbi...
Apr 07, 2021
Bloomington’s Carrillo lashes out at a pair of newly elected city council members
Ward 6 Council member Jenn Carrillo (right) was not up for reelection this year. (Photo courtesy: Heart of Illinois ABC)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMINGTON – Bloomington will greet three new cit...
Apr 07, 2021
Municipal election results
Mboka Mwilambwe, who becomes Bloomington’s first black mayor, is the city’s longest serving alderman representing Ward 3 since 2011. (WJBC file photo) By WJBC StaffBLOOMINGTON –...
Apr 06, 2021
UIS planting flags to call attention to the problem of sexual assault
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and the first Tuesday in April is the Day of Action. (Dave Dahl/WJBC) By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – University of Illinois Springfield is planting a fla...
Apr 06, 2021
First weekly crop report of the season
Winter wheat is two percent headed, with no numbers from the state’s two major cash crops. (WJBC file photo) By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – It's time to start the weekly USDA Illinois crop...
Apr 06, 2021
McLean County hospitals almost full; MCHD reports 44 new cases of COVID
The county’s rolling positivity rate went up from 4.9% to 5.4%. (Graphic courtesy McLean County Health Department) By Neil DoyleBLOOMINGTON – McLean County hospitals are almost full a...
Apr 06, 2021
