By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – “Help is here,” said State Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth (D-Peoria), hosting the governor’s big announcement in Peoria Monday. A record “$327 million is no small amount of money,” said Gordon-Booth. “And if we just think a few short eighteen months ago, we had no idea what the next eighteen months from…… MORE
By HOI ABC NORMAL – Elected leaders have given final government approval for a Love’s truck stop and RV park in north Normal, and builders are also being allowed to put up a sign that’s much higher than permitted in the town’s code. The Normal Town Council approved plans to rezone 30.5 acres of farmland to…… MORE
By HOI ABC NORMAL – A man shot multiple times this weekend outside an apartment complex in north Normal is in critical condition, Normal Police said Monday. Normal Police Assistant Chief Steve Petrilli confirmed to our news partner HOI ABC a man in his 20’s, who is not a resident of McLean County, is being treated…… MORE
A Tazewell County woman has been sentenced to 75 years after being found guilty of beating and murdering her boyfriend’s four-year-old son.… MORE
Town of Normal is looking for a new developer after Bush Development LLC, an Iowa-based developer, has backed out of the Trail East project.… MORE
Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley has identified the victim of a vehicle accident Wednesday night in Tazewell County.… MORE
By Neil Doyle BLOOMINGTON – The McLean County Chamber of Commerce is once again hosting a job fair in the parking lot of Eastland Mall. Over 40 local employers from a variety of industry sectors will be looking to hire for more than 1,200 hundred immediate openings. Jessica Kemp is the event services manager for the…… MORE
By WJBC Staff NORMAL – Uptown Normal is hosting Medici Oktoberfest from 4-10 p.m. on Saturday. “No Parking” signs will be posted at 10 a.m. at the following streets and closed at 12 noon. Streets will reopen at 11 p.m. North Street from Uptown Circle to Broadway Avenue Intersection of Broadway Avenue and North Street A map…… MORE
The developer in the Trail East project is no longer pursuing the project.… MORE
A person is dead after a crash versus a combine accident on Queenwood road late Wednesday night.… MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…