By HOI ABC MCLEAN COUNTY – A local man is jailed in McLean County after a grand jury indicted him on charges he beat a child. Court documents say Lance Cotton, 29, beat the child repeatedly starting in December 2019, causing brain injuries and bone fractures. The child was younger than 13, according to court…… MORE
Rivian has closed on another multi-billion dollar round of private funding.… MORE
More than a month after historic flooding in McLean County, Gov. Pritzker on Friday submitted a request to the U.S. Small Business Administration seeking a disaster declaration.… MORE
Slow down in the school zones!… MORE
Everybody has had their identity stolen; the only difference is whether anybody has done anything with the information.… MORE
By Neil Doyle BLOOMINGTON – The interim chief of the Bloomington Police Department is retiring after 25 years on the job. Greg Scott will retire in September as City Manager Tim Gleason accepted Scott’s resignation on Thursday. “I appreciate Greg postponing his original retirement plans and stepping up to guide the department until a new…… MORE
By WJBC Staff PONTIAC – Masks will be optional in Pontiac’s District 429 this school year. Superintendent Brian Dukes says the district’s board of education met earlier this week and determined that students will not be required to wear masks during the school day. State law still requires masks when students are on buses, and…… MORE
By Neil Doyle BLOOMINGTON – Local health officials are reminding people, especially those who are unvaccinated, that the COVID delta variant is present in Central Illinois. “We know it to be more infectious than previously detected variants, so that is one of the reasons why we are seeing an increase in cases,” said McLean County…… MORE
By IIS Radio SPRINGFIELD – Nearly 2,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported Thursday in Illinois, the highest one day total since early May. The latest daily total is 1,993 cases and six additional deaths. Gov. JB Pritzker says they are carefully watching the numbers. “We are constantly monitoring COVID across the state and we will…… MORE
By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Post pandemic, one new thing which will stick around will be the virtual doctor visit. Gov. JB Pritzker Thursday signed a bill expanding access to tele-health. “Today is historic because, as we come out of this pandemic,” said the House sponsor, State Rep. Thaddeus Jones (D-Calumet City), “we have to…… 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…