WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Ron Smith Printing, is proud to announce the Intercity Football Player of the Week. Grant Price – Normal Community Grant connected on 13 of his 15 passes for 229 yards with six touchdowns while leading the Ironmen offense to eight scores in their 10 possessions in Friday’s 55-6 over Richwoods.… MORE
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
A battle for the runner-up spot in the Corn Belt Conference highlights Week 7 of the WJBC Country Financial High School Football Extravaganza.… MORE
WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.… MORE
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Ron Smith Printing, is proud to announce the Intercity Football Player of the Week. Telly Arrington – Bloomington Telly rushed 18 times for 250 yards and three touchdowns in the first Purple Raiders win of the season, a 69-20 victory over Peoria Manual on Saturday afternoon. Congratulations!… MORE
By Greg Halbleib Bloomington High School broke through after a close first quarter and captured its first win of the 2015 football season with a 69-20 victory over Manual on Saturday afternoon at Peoria Stadium. Telly Arrington rushed 18 times for 250 yards and three touchdowns to lead the victorious Purple Raiders, who compiled 490…… MORE
Week Six of the WJBC Country Financial High School Football Extravaganza had the Normal schools falling to a pair of Peoria schools, while the intercity Corn Belt conference teams were victorious.… MORE
First place in the Big 12 Conference is on the line as the co-leaders battle in the highlight contest of Week 6’s WJBC Country Financial High School Football Extravaganza.… MORE
WJBC Radio, in conjunction with Ron Smith Printing, is proud to present the Intercity Football Player of the Week. Dante Ruffin – Normal West Ruffin captures the award for the second straight week, besting the previous weeks four-touchdown performance by hitting the end zone five times (four rush, one pass), all in the first half…… 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…