Category Archives: Top Stories
Downtown Bloomington businesses fundraising money for PATH Crisis
Tickets for the event are $20. (Photo courtesy: La La Boutique/Facebook) By Blake Haas BLOOMINGTON – One local business wants to raise money for PATH Crisis, a mental health call crisis center i...
Feb 29, 2024
State Farm lost $6.3B in 2023; company VP reports that State Farm “remains financially strong”
State Farm’s headquarters are located in Bloomington. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)By Blake HaasBLOOMINGTON – Bloomington-Normal’s largest insurance company posted a net loss of $6 bil...
Feb 29, 2024
Many local County Clerk Offices say Trump will stay on the ballot
Illinois is the third state to attempt to remove Trump from the ballot after challenges in Maine and Colorado. (Photo courtesy: CBS News)By WMBD-TV PEORIA – Many Local County Clerk Offices have ...
Feb 29, 2024
Gov. Pritzker announces infrastructure grants through the Illinois Soundstage Program
Gov. Pritzker. (Photo courtesy: Dave Dahl/WJBC) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Hollywood. New York. Champaign?It could happen, as Gov. JB Pritzker Wednesday announced infrastructure grants through t...
Feb 28, 2024
Brandon Walker gets life in prison for the horrific starvation death of Navin Jones
Brandon Walker appeared for his sentencing hearing Wednesday afternoon in a Peoria courtroom. (Photo courtesy: WMBD) By WMBD TV PEORIA – A Peoria man will spend the rest of his life in prison fo...
Feb 28, 2024
Illinois Secretary of State tells House committee the state is an outlier on car insurance rates
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias. (Photo courtesy: Blake Haas/WJBC) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Your income, your credit score, and whether you own a house.These factors would not se...
Feb 28, 2024
NAACP holds its voting empowerment workshop
The NAACP was founded in 1909 and is the world's largest and oldest civil rights organization in the world. (WJBC File Photo)By WMBD-TVBLOOMINGTON – The Bloomington-Normal NAACP was empowering v...
Feb 26, 2024
Illinois Senator reacts to Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling on protecting IVF process
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth. (Photo courtesy Facebook/Tammy Duckworth)By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is not only a U.S. senator. She is a mother of two, both children born thr...
Feb 26, 2024
Hundreds come out to Miller Park for the 25th annual Polar Plunge
By WMBD-TVBLOOMINGTON – Hundreds of people took the plunge into the frigid waters of Miller Park Lake in Bloomington."As the lead up it was like 700 plungers, then it was 800, I show up today an...
Feb 26, 2024
Severe storms could impact Central Illinois on Tuesday
Factor in a strong jet stream overhead and a strong cold front pushing in from the west, you've got all the ingredients in place for severe storms. (Photo McLean County Emergency Management Agency/Fac...
Feb 26, 2024
