WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.
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WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.
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Central Catholic’s boys basketball team plays host the Illinois Valley Central Grey Ghosts of Chillicothe in a Corn Belt Conference battle at Cvengros Gymnasium tonight.… MORE
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
In the fall of 1972, I started my high school athletic career on a football field at New Berlin High School in New Berlin, Illinois.… MORE
Normal Community High School is looking for a new athletic director.… MORE
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
It will be a battle of Big 12 leaders in boys basketball tonight when the Normal Community Ironmen visit No. 3-ranked (in Class 3A) Peoria Manual.… MORE
By WJBC Staff NORMAL – For the fifth straight year and 21st out of 23 tournaments, Bloomington has earned the Intercity wrestling title. Purple Raiders coach Mark Gardner says his team went through ups and downs during Wednesday’s meet at Normal Community High School. “We’ve been working on some new things and some of those…… MORE
Off to a 2-0 start in Missouri Valley Conference play and winners of five of their last six games, the Redbirds are aiming for their fourth-straight victory when ISU hosts Loyola 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…