Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, observes action on the Senate floor during the last week of the 2025 legislative session. Harmon was the sponsor of a bill to reform the Prisoner Review Board. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - The Grove Street Bakery announced its closure in mid-July, but soon after, a new owner came in a purchased the bakery, allowing it to stay open. Lizzie Kalafut, the new owner of the bakery, lived in northern Illinois before coming down to the Twin Cities to keep a staple of the city alive. Sh...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - A Bloomington Fire Department captain finished his last shift Wednesday after more than two decades of service, according to a post on the department's Facebook page. Capt. Jason Anglin hung up the gear one final time after 22 years of service. "Jason is a well-respected and well-liked p...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - September is National Recovery Month, and one organization is raising awareness by encouraging the community to Paint the Town Purple. Paint the Town Purple is a month-long event where people in the community decorate using the color purple and the idea of recovery. Mclean County Recovery Ori...

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois State Board of Elections said this week it will not hand over to the Trump administration a copy of the state's complete, unredacted voter registration database, citing state laws that require the agency to protect voters' sensitive personal information. In a letter Tuesday to the Voting Sect...

NASCAR will not be returning to Chicago streets next summer as the racing series takes its road act to likely sunnier weather in San Diego following two rain-plagued races out of its three years in Chicago. But while the innovative race leaves town for at least one year, the state's fiscal year 2026 budget still contai...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - A Bloomington man arrested for traveling to meet a minor and solicitation of a child has died while on pretrial release. 58-year-old Thad E. Olson was arrested on Aug. 22 in Macon County along with four other individuals involved in a human trafficking demand suppression operation carried out...

Gov. JB Pritzker said Tuesday he expects Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to employ the same aggressive strategies they used in Los Angeles earlier this summer after President Donald Trump said he will deploy the National Guard to Chicago. The information, Pritzker said, was not directly communicated to him, ...