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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)
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
'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)
Under emergency rule, Illinois prisons begin withholding physical mail
The Illinois Department of Corrections has enacted an emergency rule change to prevent contraband from entering its prisons through letters and books sent to people in prison. Under the rule that went...
Sep 11, 2025 Pinckneyville Correctional Center is pictured in southern Illinois. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Country Financial marks 100 years with Rader Farms corn maze
NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) - Rader Family Farms cut the ribbon to its annual corn maze, in celebration with Country Financial's 100th anniversary. "As we celebrate our hundredth anniversary throughout 2025, ...
Sep 10, 2025 Sarah Franzen, COUNTRY Financial joined Adam Rader, Rader Family Farms for an interview on WJBC's Afternoon Show. (Photo courtesy: David Beigie/COUNTRY Financial)
