Category Archives: Politics
Complaints continue about fraud and security breaches at IDES
Kristin Richards, acting director of the Illinois Department of Employment Security. (Dave Dahl/WJBC)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – Complaints continue about fraud and security breaches at the state'...
Dec 04, 2020
House GOP ask Madigan to resign, Durkin wants to be speaker
House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) says he will appeal to fifteen "reform-minded" Democrats to support him so he can be speaker. (Dave Dahl/WJBC) By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD –...
Dec 02, 2020
LaHood looking forward to working with Biden Administration
U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)By Blake HaasBLOOMINGTON – Putting political differences aside and finding common ground is one Central Illinois lawmaker’s goal on...
Dec 01, 2020
Senator Durbin: “We’ve got to do something” to provide more COVID-19 relief
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)By Blake HaasBLOOMINGTON – As bars and restaurants continue to suffer from the ramifications from the COVID-19 mitigations set forth by G...
Nov 30, 2020
Nikita Richards steps down as leader of McLean County Democrats
Nikita Richards (Photo courtesy: Heart of Illinois ABC)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMINGTON – The chair of the McLean County Democratic Party is stepping down after seven months in that position....
Nov 30, 2020
Judge sentences caller who threatened to shoot Rodney Davis
U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville). (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)By Heart of Illinois ABCSPRINGFIELD – A US District Judge sentenced Randall E. Tarr, of Rochester, to serve two years probation...
Nov 23, 2020
Speaker Madigan: “I plan to be a candidate for speaker”
House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago). (Photo courtesy: WikiMedia/Illinoislawmakers)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – To cap off a week in which more than a dozen House Democrats have gone away from Ho...
Nov 23, 2020
Nine months on the front lines
Dr. Brian Miller (pictured), president of the Sangamon County Health Board (Photo courtesy: Dave Dahl/WJBC)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – A panel of doctors on a University of Illinois Springfield lo...
Nov 23, 2020
Sen. Durbin calls on President Trump to work with President-elect Biden on COVID vaccine distribution
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (Photo courtesy: Dick Durbin/Facebook)By Blake HaasBLOOMINGTON – Coronavirus cases are on the rise, and Illinois’s Senior U.S. Senator says President Trump needs to w...
Nov 18, 2020
McLean County Board race shows every vote counts
Democratic challenger Val Laymon is declaring victory after the final count shows she defeated incumbent Republican Jacob Beard by eight votes. (Photo courtesy: HOI/ABC)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMIN...
Nov 18, 2020
