A new proposal would mean the Corn Belt and Okaw Valley become one conference beginning with the 2017-2018 school year.… MORE
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A new proposal would mean the Corn Belt and Okaw Valley become one conference beginning with the 2017-2018 school year.… MORE
Bloomington High School principal Tim Moore and athletic director Tony Bauman are recommending Peoria Notre Dame head football coach Joe Walters to become the new football coach for the Purple Raiders next season.… MORE
Schools in the Corn Belt and Okaw Valley have voted unanimously in favor of merging the two conferences.… MORE
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.
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Normal Community’s Ironmen will step out of Big 12 play in boys basketball with a non-conference battle at Mahomet-Seymour tonight.… MORE
WJBC features a Corn Belt Conference battle in high school basketball tonight.… MORE
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
More than a dozen local high school football standouts will formally declare their college intentions on National Signing Day on Wednesday.… MORE
Former Big 12 rivals meet in WJBC’s high school basketball feature tonight.… MORE
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… 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…